Virtual Rape: What a pathetic bunch of losers we have become
What gets me about this commentary at Wired is not the notion that some people want to make "virtual rape" a crime, or that some people want to defend society from such over-reaching, totalitarian gasbags before they enact laws and regulations to control every last variation of social interaction. After all, there are some crazy people in the world, and this fits the definition.
My problem is with some of the latter group of people, who, while seemingly able to grasp that the afrorementioned autocrats have gone beyond the pale, don't seem to realize that they enable the extreme by accepting the notion that this kind of interaction is something to leave anyone traumatized.
I am not suggesting that people aren't traumatized - the fact that they get upset and cry over this kind of stuff speaks for itself. I'm saying that our society has has become so disfunctional about the most basic notions of common sense that even an adult hasn't learned about "sticks and stones". Yes, people this damaged need some serious help. But apparently only those of us who don't buy into this therapy-based, squishy-morality, ultra-sensitive, Oprah-as-Messiah culture are able to see that the help they are going to get will inevitably be provided by the very same people who promoted the kind of childrearing that put them into that state in the first place.
Liberals, you are the children of your own creation. Why the hell am I supposed to feel bad for any of you?
