But that attempt to demonstrate the absurdity is built on a false equivalence.
That was the point. You did the same absurdity. Do you not realize that? You took one shared attribute and proceeded to call two different things the same.
You can think what you want, but if you argue your points unsoundly, you are formally wrong. It does not even matter if your opinion has any merit.
back to the point I made elsewhere on this message board: that the fiction you indulge in affects the way you act in real life
Which is only trivially true. You argue that it promotes doing the virutal thing in real life. Which is not true according to current scientific consens.
I will choose to believe you didn't put quotes around "exactly equivalent" in bad faith.
Apologies here. You only likened them to each other enough to call for action and I misread the statement.
And yes, there is no appropriate clause. No exceptions. If you want free speech, it means all of it. Not only the ones you think are appropriate. Things change with time and place and trends. Views on lgbt changed several times in my lifetime as an example.
The thing is, Itch is a platform that has content for adults. It might be prudent to call for Itch to have better content filter options, as they only have adult yes or no. I would place most horror into adult. And some of the adult content here would be 16+/12+ in other countries. Opinions differ. And even for adult content a more granular content filter would be appreciated.
I value freedom, and I detest if an angry mob tries to decide what is ok for adults to play. It is belittling. It reminds of a thought police.
And as an adult I can decide for myself which games to play or not play and what content to experience. Hearing unsound arguments why I should not have that choice or why a particular thing is bad, irritates me. If those arguments against content would turn out to be true, it will sooner or later hit things you or I actually do enjoy. Like Dexter. It is a tv show where the hero is a literal serial killer. Accepting your line of thought would mean to accept that I will become a serial killer. I reject that. And your unsound arguments make that easy. Since you have wrong premises and use fallacies, your line of thought is very probably wrong, and I can rest assured to not become a serial killer.
Taboo things and crimes and violence make fascinating entertainment. That's all there is to it. Banning fiction is not gonna make the world better. But allowing to ban fiction is making the world worse. That is how I see it. And I do see people rise in power by lying and manipulating emotions. I want less of that and more sound discussions. You can convinve me to not play the game and understand why you would not play it or recommend to not play it, but you could not convince me to think it is a good thing to allow banning it.
Thank you for not getting personal.