Rape in RP (was Re: [Discuss] Status ?)

[James Spadaccini]

Tom wrote:
> Gloria Santos wrote:
>> You all must recall that a while ago I asked what the game's rating 
>> should be, given that some of my content was rated unfit for young 
>> people (when I asked that, our youngest player was probably Lyman) 
>> and later we had an 11 years old playing in a realm with us in Perdan.
> You can not rate content in an international game. Every nation and 
> culture has different ratings, and something that's a total non-issue 
> in most of Europe, say partial nudity, gives parts of the US a 
> freakout reason, while some of what you americans call "mild violence" 
> is too graphic for other parts of the world. And let's not even start 
> about really foreign cultures, like arabs or asians.
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> If you as a parent let your young kid on the Internet without 
> supervision, then you are to blame, not whatever sites it finds there.
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Tom, you're not even seeing the point here about how sensitive this 
issue is.  It has nothing to do with cultural norms.  It has nothing to 
do with children playing the game.