The new neighbors...

Doesn't begin to describe my feelings on the matter.

If what I said still doesn't compute, then there is no point, because I have already repeated myself too many times.

go defend bestiality and kids wrecking their lives somewhere, I'm done.

we should care about what Rebecca? and by caring, what all that does that entail?





answer the question Rebecca.


Oh youre done? ok youre FINALLY done?

Well at least they;re not on the streets skulking in your bushes

i guess she didnt want to answer the question giggles

Somehow, the SL neighbors bonking the barnyard animal prims pales in comparison to this thread as a possible cause of RL violence.

Ah.
No, I'm sorry. It truly does not compute, in the context of Second Life, to me.

Similar arguments have beset humanity for decades, if not century's and millennia, as technology improved.

Recent examples:
Rock and roll
Television
Video games as early as the late 1970's
Dungeon and Dragons

All of these have been blamed for the degeneration of people (primarily youth), and yet, here we are.

To claim that SL will promote deviant behavior in those not inclined to it is simply disingenuous.

...and to address your quick little edit here:

Normal people DO care - we care in the Real World by loving and guiding our children to think, to be aware, to be strong in themselves.

Personally, I believe the people that don't care are the one's that want everyone to be controlled, so they don't have to be bothered doing the job themselves.

...and now I say goodnight - if I don't respond, it's due to my being asleep.

You were donig that to me about 6 pages back... pot, meet kettle.

There's two types of roleplay - fun, and dangerous.

Mari's type of roleplay - the innocent, non sexual child - is fun.

Going round pretending you're in Star Trek or something ... is fun.

Caledon is an amazing place, and one of the things that SL excels in offering.

All the above are innocent, wholesome and fun.


Gor ... can be an interesting dynamic if you don't get too carried away with 'slaves'. But the architecture can be nice.

Having sex with horses... by most people's standards... is pretty sick.

Having a fantasy about being tentacle raped by an octopus... is wierd.

Acting it out and wishing that in some way you could experience it all for real... should ring alarm bells in any balanced person's mind.

are you in love with me? because robot already banned interspecies mating between us. stop being so butthurt please. its not personal. i just think youre full of it. thats all

Hmm, sorry no interest in everyone doing mandatory military service to experience battle fatigue..... sounds bad for the population, especially if it incites people to RL violence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWyYhGwXNLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viIra7FQiAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVS7Nzg5Kug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EAaPuYy1J8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMlZWCN89M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB49s4hlHVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjeJB8LfCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0Sx_fse_o&feature=related

Not in the slightest. I can't think of a single good thing about you based on your performance in this forum.

There's nothing wrong with my butt either... is that some other strange fetish of yours?

bend over and i will show you

Broccoli,
Funny is that I agree on most things listed, but you (and with you a few others) make one big mistake. When saying something IS fon, or IS weird, you state that it is some kind of given fact. And it isn't. It is nothing more then your personal opinion, however many will share it though.

As for me, I find playing a child avatar weird. Not that I think it is wrong, I even find it nice to see, but the fact an adult plays a child av is weird to me personally. As is someone pretending to be a star trek character. As is roleplaying some bad written novel series. But that does not mean it IS weird. Your opinion, or my opinion, does not hold some universal wisdom or truth. It is all in the words chosen


Marcel

Didn't you get the memo?

Look, you have argued for months the SL economy needs to be more like WoW or the government will shut us down.

So now you are on the WoW addiction thing.

You post You Tube videos and web links about WoW , its not like you were showing us a report done by professional Psychiatric journal or even an expose done by Time or the BBC. Even Reuters is hardly unbiased research, its just "news" filler.

You simply come across as very paranoid and believing in a lot of the hype that surrounds a silly video game. And thats why I made the "brainwashed" comment.

Even your anecdotal personal experience isn't unbiased. My 15 year old son and his friends all tried WoW, none of them played it for more than a couple of weeks. Said it got too boring. I know plenty of people who are into it from online though - None seem to have the appraisal that its so impossibly difficult that you claim.

Some of the claims you make are even patently ridiculous - like becoming elite at a video game takes more effort than getting a college degree. Some might have spent more time playing than on their school work - but that is not the same thing at all. From what I can google the game hasn't even been out 4 years yet.

Addiction is hardly a new thing. Even Video Game addiction. There were plenty of people skipping class to play Nintendo too.

I still read in the forum in case there is any useful information, and I've been following this thread. I am not back to posting in this forum, but I felt the need to write this one as an observer.

Swan is a complete and utter idiot, who appears to be devoid of anything resembling common sense, or even slightly sensible thought. (I'll assume that Swan is female).

She resorts to insults all the time, because she just likes doing it when someone doesn't agree with her, and is even so stupid as to claim that someone else (Rebecca) is showing herself up, when she's the one who makes herself look ridiculous with every post she writes. She is even so stupid as to accuse someone else of flaming her, when she started the flames and is the biggest flamer in this thread. I honestly doubt that she has the mental wherewithall to be even slightly embarrassed by what she's written, because I believe that she is stupid enough to think that she hasn't written a wrong word here.

That's what I wanted to say but, since I'm posting, I might as well add a view.

Simulated bestiality is not just pixel sex, any more than sex between two human avatars is nothing but pixel sex. Most people who have sex in SL become aroused - at least - because it takes place in the mind. There is no reason to suppose that people who have an animal fetish, and do it with animals in SL, don't become sexually aroused. For them it takes place in their minds too. So the argument that it's just pixel sex is wrong. It's much more than that. It is real in the mind, and the real body is sexually affected.

I don't have a view as to whether or not people should be controlled by banning it, but if I owned the system, it would be banned. I would not have my system used for such depraved activities. I do have a view about whether or not it can have really bad real world effects on some people though. It can. There is no doubt about that in my mind. It feeds depraved desires and, with some people, it can feed them enough to think more seriously about going out and actually doing it.

On the topic of this thread, there is no child living next door to the bestiality place, so that aspect is a non-starter. Anyone who doesn't want to live next door to something should move.

It's a shame that people choose to twist things against other people. Even in the post that Colette wrote as I've been writing this one, she refers to Rebecca saying that "becoming elite at a video game takes more effort than getting a college degree." If my memory is correct, Rebecca didn't say that, but Collete changed what Rebecca said to suit her own argument. It's really pitiful.

There you go Phil.

"Study involved to master" I changed to "Effort" Yes a huge twist.

This is a bit childish. Post or don't Post, but theres no need to be all publicly Emo about it.

Mute me and the people who you can't stand and move on.

No, Colette. Go back and read again - you've still got it wrong. It would have been much easier to get it right in the first place though, instead of twisting it in favour of a bias.

I did and it still reads to me that she is comparing the study required to master the end game of WoW to getting a college education.

Which is ludicrous in my opinion.

Absolutely.

Seeing what colleges chuck out these days, I'd say WoW was much more advanced.