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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I understand what you're saying, but I'm just going to use the same point that I use when people try to blame GTA for an increase in violence.

If someone (for example) wants to beat someone to death because they're gay, then unfortunately they were on the brink of committing the crime anyway, no Andrew Tate Podcast saying Homophobic stuff can alter his viewers mindsets.

Tbh, if someone is a fan of Andrew Tate unironically it probably already means that the individual was messed up to begin with, the same with any other political extremist on the right.

Thanks for your reply. I totally get your point, but in another thread you openly question why that game promoting rape even exists and why the makers haven’t been investigated. So you can understand that there is a difference between a game in which the ability to do bad stuff exists (GTA) and a game which actively promotes doing bad stuff (the other game) and why one is not problematic in the way the other is. So there are complexities and levels which exist in society across all things where we say “that crosses the line”, and that has always existed.

To clarify, if someone was to say “I don’t agree with gay marriage, to be honest, I think marriage should be between a man and a woman” then I’m not calling for them to be punished for having that opinion. I disagree with it, but whatever.

If someone says “Gay people are disgusting, they’re after our children and their gross behaviour is disintegrating traditional values and it must be stopped”, well that’s another kind of thing altogether and that kind of all-too-common baiting by far-right paranoid Lawrence Fox type people should absolutely be challenged and called out for what it is: inciting hate.