which is why I added that.

I did add a "rape" mod to one of my games, adds a level of difficulty for keeping the evil NPCs off my female companion NPCs

I wouldn't call that hypocritical.
For some people, rape and torture are worse than murder and I'm inclined to agree.
I think as long as stuff is not available for children anyway, artists should get as much freedom of expression as possible, but I'd still call them sick in some cases and that's my personal freedom.

Everybody draws the line somewhere. Where is yours? Pedophilia perks in RPGs?

OP's question sounds like a something certain government agencies would ask for recruitment purposes.

I was trying not to add my bias at that time

It's a..... game. There is no actual killing. Killing for fun, even insects is bad but not playing a game. Are the actors playing in "Texas chainsaw massacre" homicidal maniacs? In a game you play a character that's in a situation where sometime murder is the only way out. I read a lot of reviews before buying a game but, even then, sometime I quit because it's just violence for the sake of violence. I'm not that angry. But, if someone is, better do it in a game than in real life.

I don't think it's the main factor. I think that the gaming context itself weights on the moral scale. Something like an aknowledgement of common theft/violence fantasies (especially the "righteous" violence that is denounced in the OP), as opposed to rape fantasies. In other words, it's considered normal to have theft/illegal/violent fantasies to fulfill virtually, as these are often glamorized by all medias (from traditional tales to popular movies etc), even if they cannot be tolerated in real life. But only a specific kind of creeps have rape fantasies to fulfill, even virtually.

There are probably several aspects overlapping there. The "thoughtcrime" of rape (if you ask me, a "rape fantasy" or even a "animal abuse" fantasy, defines someone a bit more as douchebag, whatever the imagined setting, than, say, a shoot-all-of-the-baddies-goons fantasy). And maybe its feasability (the abuse on animals and the sexist legitimation of rape attitudes may be a tad more of a stake than more consensual theft/murder issues). I think there's quite a few parameters that play a role...

All you need to do now is add some cool mods to your baseball bat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFrKnqBJG6Q



Vote for Falcon 4.0 on GOG so we can all practice!
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/falcon_40_original_not_allied_force

If having your head casually sawed off by inbred turds with rusty kitchen knives is the alternative then I'll take the lasers option, too!

I'm not quite sure I get your response, but anyway - I was being a little goofy because it really did remind me of some questions I've heard. "Is it ever ok to lie?" Love that one, coming from the government.

There is actually a pretty cool movie about that, The Killing Room.

Why not, it is just a game. I have massacred native tribes in Colonization.I have done imperialism in Imperialism and waged many wars in all kinds of games.

Murder is the worst, that is not a matter of personal preference. It is universally the crime with the highest criminal punishment. Yet players are ok with it, but not much lesser crimes. That by definition hypocritical.

no line, art can do everything

But have you raped in RapeLay?

Nope, not really a fan of actiongames.

I'm sure you don't understand the word "hypocritical".

That just shows, that the scale of the weight of crimes in the legal system is another one than in big parts of the population. You may define your moral standards by your countries laws (which I doubt, there are always ones with which you'll disagree), but nobody else really does it in every case.

In most western countries the punishment for a banker stealing a million dollars is much less intense than the one for a hobo stealing 100 dollars to get food and the punishment for software piracy and hacking is usually more intense than for rape, do you think this is fair?

Just look at this stuff:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265402

http://aattp.org/steubenville-rape-case-hacker-raided-by-fbi-may-get-more-jail-time-than-rapists/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/opinion-hacking-vs-rape-which-crime-more-deserving-jail-time
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/7/hacker_group_anonymous_leaks_chilling_video

Such legal systems have no right to tell me what is "the worst".

As I've written, not the line for forbidding something but for what is inacceptable for oneself, I'm sure there is something you'd feel a problem with, being able to and getting rewarded for kidnapping and raping a child, murdering it, raping it again, pissing on it, feeding it to your dogs and burning the rest on its mother's lawn maybe? If it's shown pretty realistic, I'm sure you'd feel some kind of wrongness when seeing it, telling me you wouldn't is hypocritical.

Cool! Something to look for.

This is just catharsis, I kill people in video games to avoid to do it in real life... Yes, I'm a psycho !
A sin ? Man is a sinner by nature, so killing people in video games won't make a difference.
Personally, my unique limit is to kill animals, specially cats. I avoid to kill animals in video games if I can, except if I can't progress anymore or if they are mutants, zombies or under an evil influence .