Citing its underage eroticism, Sony America pulls plug on Japanese video game

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Story<BR><BR>Sony America has declined to release the Japanese title Rule of Rose in the US, judging its content too offensive for US gamers and politicians. Is it a sign of American prudery, sound moral decision, or good business?
 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by mikileen:<BR>Quite. However a culture <B>can</B> be wrong. In the Aztec culture the custom of throwing virgins down the steps of a pyramid was hardly right just becuase it was culturally based, chopping off the hands of thieves is tolerated as law in some places as is murdering murderers. These laws have their basis in culture but are hardly right. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>How <B>DARE</B> you presume to judge these cultures, you horrible ethnocentric bigot! Who are <I>WE</I> to cast aspersions on how other cultures behave? Our culture isn't any better than anyone else's has ever been or will ever be, they're all unique like diamond snowflakes and should all be respected equally. Didn't you go to <I>COLLEGE</I>?
 
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by mikileen:<BR>Nor have I said as much, I haven't implied any culture being 'better' than another, all I said was that certain actions with their basis in culture can be wrong. Take, anti-semitism in Germany in the 30's/40's, apartheid in South Africa... hey I could go on. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Again, who are we to judge the behavior of these cultures? Anti-semitism has been part of the fabric of European culture for centuries if not millennia, so who are we to start judging <I>now</I>? Morality and personal accountability are such obsolete Dead White Male Imperialistic constructs, my Womyn's Studies professor told me so!<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"><BR>Whether or not I went to university is relevant how? So if I didn't go to university I wouldn't be eligible to an opinion? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Of course it isn't! If you didn't study for an undergraduate degree in a liberal arts discipline, you are not qualified to talk about anything related to culture or politics. Why else spend all that money otherwise?
 
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