How about a game of tactical thermonuclear war?

[andrewducker]

Over here is a discussion I got into predicated on this:

Which is worse - rape or murder?

Got your answer?

You probably answered "murder". Now, would you let your children play rape games? Would you play them yourself? If you answered "no" to either, your next question is: Why are the murder games okay?

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[andrewducker]

Well, there have been deliberate policies of rape from everyone from the Romans to the Japanese, as well as the unofficialy official rapes that have occured pretty much every time a city has fallen in the history of recorded warfare.

But I think we have to differentiate between "worse for the victim" and "a worse act to commit" (the two varying, depending on your moral code). Certainly, rape is possibly worse to commit, as there is never a justification. But Murder is a worse thing to happen to you, I'd say, especially as not doing so would be a grave insult to all those people who have been raped and then have lived lives afterwards. To say to them "better that you had been murdered" would be a grave disservice.