Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation

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305. For me the concern is twofold.

First, it really does have to be the voluntary and knowing free choice, and the audience may not have any way of knowing how free it was. There are many was to coerce compliance without actual violence (employers do it all the time). So if a portrayal of violence were something were especially realistic, I would tend to assume that it is real. When seeing evidence of violence, the assumption should always be that the violence is real unless there is clear evidence to the contrary.

The other problem is the effect that violent entertainment has on developing minds. Even if the observer is legally old enough to view such things, their minds are still pretty malleable well into their twenties. Repeated exposure to fictional violence from all sources normalizes violence and desensitizes one to it.