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

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?

 

[mikileen]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">But what I do can be right or wrong. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><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. That's why we have an international convention on <B>human</B> rights.

 

[mikileen]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">How DARE you presume to judge these cultures, you horrible ethnocentric bigot! Who are WE 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 COLLEGE? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Wow, I thought you were being sarcastic or something until I got to then end and there was no punch line! Okay let me split your rant up.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">How DARE you presume to judge these cultures, you horrible ethnocentric bigot! Who are WE to cast aspersions on how other cultures behave? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>We? Well I know who I am but haven't the slightest idea who you are. Possibly the "we" you mean is those cultures with respect for human rights? Obviously excluding you.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Our culture isn't any better than anyone else's has ever been or will ever be. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><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. If I'm not mistaken both of these examples resulted outcry involving most of the rest of the world with opposing cultural views, though they never claimed to be 'better'.<BR><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?<BR>Hey and leave out the ad hominem please, if you have an argument, type it up, otherwise shut up.

 

[mikileen]

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<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>? </div>
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<br>So because something went on for a long time we should never judge it? Right.<br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<br>Morality and personal accountability are such obsolete Dead White Male Imperialistic constructs, my Womyn's Studies professor told me so!<br> </div>
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<br>Oh! Sorry! You're right. I apologise. Your womyn's studies professor said that morality and accountability are dead white men's constructs so we should just forget all about them. Good point, well made.<br><br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<br>Originally posted by mikileen:<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>
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<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? </div>
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<br><br>It isn't or it is? Make up your mind. Are you seriously telling us all that if we didn't study liberal arts we're not qualified to post opinions on culture or politics here? You're joking, surely! All the same it must be nice to be qualified to call all the users of a site devoted to culture "a bunch of fags" as you do here... or here , demonstrating your enlightened tolerance and understanding for other cultures. Way to be consistent Otis. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --