Discussion: Responsible Use of a virtual world
Tonight at Grizzy's Cafe, we had a discussion about responsible behavior in a virtual world. I have saved a transcript. I have edited out extraneous comings and goings.
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( Click here for the transcript )
I don't think the percentage is as small as he thinks it is but he is right that SL hasn't changed it but certain aspects of it don't help it, either.
Yeah, he seems to think I was saying that SL was causing the abusive behavior, when I don't think that all. I think that engaging in it repeatedly in virtual reality is not helping and may even be perpetuating it.
There is a possibility that SL allows people to experiment with fantasies but he is wrong that there is no cure for harmful sexual activities. There are ways to rehabilitate sex addicts and sex criminals.
Yeah, again I made the point somewhere in there that if you get off on pretending to rape women, maybe you should be seeing a psychiatrist rather than finding ways to indulge that without *actually* raping people. That seems like just plain common sense to me, but that got ignored.
He probably doesn't realize the way X rated movies have affected him and his perceptions as they are gradual changes. Although he might not see those changes as harmful.
yeah, when he said that Glor responded with "or so you think." Anytime I've looked at something like that I felt like it ate away a little bit of my soul. I could feel my mind trying to justify things that I knew I shouldn't be trying to justify....but you could be right, to him those changes in attitude probably aren't negative ones like they are to me.
I find it laughable that this dude is fine with sexual violence but not vampiric violence unless he missed the point of you having a problem with violent sex, not sex in general. And I doubt there is something in the Bible that condones rape or sexual violence.
I think he thinks I have a problem with sex in general because I want to be able to log into sl without a risk of seeing sex. When I go out on the street, in RL, I know there won't be people engaging in sexual activity in plain view. I would like the same to be true of SL. To me wandering around showing off your various kinks is rude. Sex is a private thing. Publicly displaying your sexual acts for anyone and everyone in rudeness on the level of photographing your bowel movements and uploading them as textures into SL so that everyone can see them.
I personally choose not to have sex outside of a committed relationship for a large number of reasons both practical and religious.... I don't wish to impose this choice I've made for myself on others. They can have sex if they want to. I just prefer not to know the details.
If anything, lack of censorship has snowballed judging from what people find acceptable in public compared to the past. I've never seen censorship successfully snowball. There might be an increase in people crying for it but it never goes through.
Yeah, the more crap you see the more you get desensitized to it.
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