I'd like to throw my opinion in here, just to get a point across.
Quote:Via Spitfire333> I'd like to disagree. Rape happens. Rape shouldn't just not exist because someone could get offended. Aren't we striving for realism here? If carried out by two good RPers who are being allowed to partake in it, there is no real reason that rape shouldn't be allowed.
If the server were to have always strove for realism, why is it that pedophilia is not allowed in the same context that it cannot be role-played out, just like the current rules on rape? That children can age immediately? It might make sense to the lore, but that's stepping into fantasy.
I say, if there needs to be anything changed, it's stop being in the middle of reality and fantasy. Allowing rape as an offset rp, otherwise, not roleplayed out, but ICly recognized, and not other things that would otherwise break the reality, seems a bit nonsensical to me. The claims that it makes for a more "realistic" point in life doesn't make sense if you get rid of other things for the same reason our friends French, Zio and Arc are complaining about rape. It's upsetting, but it is true. So let it either be cast all away, and given a white, easy-going, epic roleplay where people can sensibly and calmly roleplay without threat of such controversial things. Or let it be that of the dark, black area. Realism to the extreme, as people OOCly face things they recognize as real, and do not like, but come together in a false setting. In a more realistic, cold, dreary, yet overly satisfying roleplay.
Understandably, yes. There will be fantasy in this no matter how you change it. The very basis of Mesalia is the multiple races, some with powers. The many different arrays of objects, like the beacons. The many different minerals made in the roleplay. The vast, vastvastvast number of people, ethnicities. There's nothing except from a clean history wipe that'd solve that. And I wouldn't even dare want that. The lore, the style. The setting. It's all unique. The roleplay policies, however, prove a bit... two sided, grey.
I know, my opinions aren't really to be taken, as I do not even frequent this lovely roleplay anymore. But I want you to consider, to take either or, and let nothing be grey about it. Because to me, that makes no sense to do it any other way.
