"How about the idea that it may act as an outlet to help suppress desires aluded to in your link in point 1 from being acted out for real?"

So I guess then we can send you a masturbation simulator... would you masturbate less??? No, it doesn't fulfill a goal.

Let me make this simple for you.
the Goal of masturbation is physical pleasure.
The Goal of a rapist is NOT physical pleasure, that would be solved with masturbation, it is wield power over someone else due to a sense of inferiority.

From WikiAnswers;
  "It is about power. If people feel powerless, and they aren't well-adjusted to society, then sometimes they can act out and try to feel good about themselves by hurting other people. With most people (thankfully) it doesn't get that far, but with others, who have certain obsessions or other mental problems, it does.

That is not to say that they have an excuse for doing so... it is an inexcusable act. But in general, it is about lack of self-esteem and needing to feel control on some level."

So, do you actually have an opinion on the topic or are you going to just argue semantics within real comments?

Exactly how I wanted to state it, but I couldn't piece the words together considering so many thoughts bombarded my brain at once.

Games serve a purpose and a good one at that.

As the parent stated, "Going around a fake city in a tank and blowing up every douchey car is just wholesome fun."
as well as...
Blowing up enemies in Halo3..
Killing Zombies in Left4Dead

For those of you who would like to use the argument that if you can murder in a game then why can't you rape in a game.
Consider this. The purpose that games serve is to satisfy a sense of success and achievement. There is always some goal of the game, usually one that requires some game play skill. The goals are to save the world, or even more simplistically remove the enemy. Oddly enough these things DO happen in real life, it is called WAR!!!!!

  Let's take GTA4 as a common example of a game where many not so moral things are possible. MOST gamers play the game to reach the goal and gain achievements. It is also great fun to explore the boundaries of the game by slapping hookers, robbing pedestrians, and shooting at cops, but if play the game where your only objective is to shoot at cops (ignoring the achievement of numerous felony stars) there may be some deep rooted hatred towards the police.

Now lets apply the same logic to this rape game. If you play a game with the objective of capturing and raping young girls you may want to look a little deeper inside yourself, and think about what your own objective is and consider why you would buy a game in the first place, then get professional help.

-Also a very strong supporter of free speech.

"It's gotten a lot of press as reviewers have noted at one point the player must force sex on a 12-year-old."

I almost vomited when I read this...
I always feel sickened to my stomach when you read news of some sick bastard who rapes someone, especially a child.
To have a "game" promote this as an achievement is disturbing.

There are plenty of strange sex acts that consenting adults can engage in, including fantasy rape scenes, that can border on the illegal but don't .....wow... I am so disgusted I cannot even finish my thoughts.

Promoting such acts should be banned, and anyone who actually performs such an act should be castrated/killed.

All versions of windows are affected by this self-destruct bug,

BY DEFAULT!!!!

There are many series of commands that can make your machine unwillingly self destruct...

P R O N

in 30 seconds, without tying up my hands..