Yesterday I posted on a hideous video game. RapeLay has no business being sold anywhere…period..simple as that.
No sooner did I stumble the post on Stumbleupon, and someone objected. He said,
Seriously, stumble? Do we need this garbage? I understand the game is tasteless and sick, but who cares? It’s not like you were forced to play it. Let people be the sick disgusting heathens they want to be, it’s none of your business.
This guy needs to seriously rethink some things. First, he foists himself on his own moral petard. If it’s none of my business to critize a game in which players gang rape and force women to have abortions, then it’s none of his business to criticize my critique. He should, paraphrasing his words, “let me be the moralistic fundie that I want to be. It’s none of his business.”
He himself does the very same thing he chides me for, the only difference is that I chide the selling of a video game that advocates rape and forced abortion, and he chides me for merely objecting to something!
Secondly, I can only hope he’s inconsistent in actually living out his moral principles. What if I were to say, “…who cares? If I want to be a racist, it’s not like he’s being forced to be a racist. It’s none of his business”? or “…who cares? If I want to be a fundamentalist preacher and take little old ladies for everything they own, it’s not like he’s being forced to participate. Let me be the sick screwball I want to be. It’s none of his business”?
You see, he might think that morality is a personal taste, pick and choose thing, but it’s not. Our beliefs and actions have repercussions that far outreach our own little lives. You know the saying: “no man is an island.” Our desires, feelings, beliefs, and actions are laced up with other human beings.
One day, my kid is going to have to grow up in this world. I don’t want her going to college and living next door in a dormroom next to some loser who plays RapeLay.
By objecting to something that’s wicked, I’m trying to make this world a better place. Saying “it’s none of your business” sounds enlightened and open minded, but it’s really just cowardice, plain and simple.
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