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The shadow aspect of the human psyche. In a repressed state, one is ignorant of their own fear and violence, and unable to control the impulse to act upon them.
Embracing the shadow, and simulating those primal instincts to kill and hurt allows for a release and self-awarness to what is hidden to most people of conscious.
I am a pacifist, and I have avidly engaged in crpg/pnp roleplaying games for many years. I have played peaceful negoiators, vengful murders, crazed rapists, and warriors of justice who only take life if it is the last resort. A full range of human characteristics is available to expirience, with no harm done to another. A clean conscious.
I think avoiding "violence" in a game, for me, would be like avoiding a crucial, yet misunderstood part of myself. In the light of self-knowledge, a purposful release of my violent tendecies seems wiser than denial or repression.
Besides, crpgs usually portray "fantasic" elements, that are more akin to dreams/nightmares than real life. The games that are graphically "realistic" ie. Involve a first person view of killing another human being for amusement, I tend to take in moderation, though I dont rule them out entirely for the reasons I stated before... After all I am an adult, with a firm grasp on reality.
[This message has been edited by G'kar (edited 09-21-2001).]
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