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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade  Your argument is that the roleplaying makes more acceptable for them the longer they do it. By that logic there would be rash outbreaks of adults murdering one another uncontrollably between desensitizing violent movies, news, music and video games.
By the time you're an adult, which is what people who roleplay ageplay are, your mental state is pretty firmly locked down. You're not going to do behavior in RL that you roleplay in a video game unless you were already going to do it anyway. |
Right, that's logical if we're talking about people with normal brain chemistry. Of course someone who plays WOW isn't going to lop their neighbor's head off with a giant hammer or something. Normal people can separate fantasy from reality.
Pedophiles can't. Having sex with children wouldn't occur to a normal, healthy adult. It's not a fantasy outlet or a fun virtual distraction. It's something that they've obviously thought about in RL and enjoyed the fantasy of, so they're fulfilling it in
SL. How long until that fantasy/reality line breaks and they do it to a real child? If they're already exploring the concept in a virtual reality, the danger is already there.