[Discuss] Status ?

[Josiah Allen]

On 7/3/06, Vinnie <vinnietje at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2006/7/3, James Spadaccini <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com>:
> > Peter Weisberg wrote:
> > > On 7/1/06, ALL-IM <eniemans at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > >> Like I said before.
> > >> Roleplaying rape is totaly NOT DONE.
> > >> In that case Lightning is a too light a punishment.
> > >>
> > >> We also had some player RolePlaying a serial killer.
> > >> And he was bitching about us not accepting him as a good RP-ing player.
> > >>
> > >> I say: No mercy and no warning what so ever. Just kick him and ban
> > >> his IP
> > >> and all.
> > >> If he doesn't understand that, then triple what I said before, if it
> > >> were
> > >> possible.
> > >
> > > I could possibly disagree with this post more.  The opposite of every
> > > sentence is true.
> > >
> > > Roleplaying rape is acceptable if it's not too graphic and doesn't
> > > cause someone else's character to do something he otherwise wouldn't.
> > > In that case Lightening is too harsh a punishment.
> > >
> > > I once heard about a player who was RPing a serial killer, and for
> > > that reason his character's realmates wouldn't accept him, even though
> > > they probably didn't know of the killings IC.  We might have lost a
> > > good RPer because of that.
> > >
> > >
> > If you had ever been through something like this or someone you loved
> > had been you would see what an ass you are.  It is completely and
> > utterly wrong.  My girlfriend has been raped recently.  If she saw any
> > form of it she'd probably cry uncontrollably for at least a day.  It is
> > not something that adds to the game and it's more likely that someone
> > will leave because it was RPed then not being allow to RP it (if someone
> > leaves because of not being able to RP it then chances are they're sick
> > and I don't want them in the game, for whatever that means anyway).  If
> > someone can tell me one thing that it adds to the game then I'll change
> > my mind, until then it should be completely and utterly disallowed and
> > like he said, a bolt is too light of a punishment for someone doing it.
> >
>
> I'm sorry for her.
>
> But there have been people murdered. My character has murdered all the time.
> Any of your characters ever looted? There are people that have been
> violently robbed. You didn't ever pick the rape option for your troops, for
> looting? And what about seriously wounding by an assassination?
>
> I understand the problem. I understand she can't live with it, but she
> should be getting help for that. Disallowing everyone to roleplay as they
> desire because of what might have happened to some people is a little far
> off.
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It is one thing to roleplay the mental anguish and suffering
afterwards(which could be helpful to rl victims relating to it), and
another to roleplay the physical act(which could give them
nightmares). In the same way as roleplaying the slow torture and death
of a child explicitly would be going a bit too far for a public rp
game for anyone with a sense of taste, instead of just referring to
the act which would get the point across fine.  I didn't see the post
myself, so I dunno.  Either way it's Tom's decision.

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