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Originally Posted by philliesphan26
You are blowing this out of proportion. No one is asking for gang rapes and decapitations. There's a difference between incidents that are, for all intents and purposes, give or take, once in a century incidents (rapes, or a major league player being killed/murdering someone/committing suicide) and things that seem to happen every season or once every few seasons (a child passing, DUIs, LONG drug suspensions, racial tirades). It's a quite obviously a sensitive topic as evidenced by the responses here, and I can respect both views. For some people though, these things DO increase realism or immersion. There's no need to be snarky about it (not to say others aren't being snarky about it, but, let's be honest here, yours is over the top and directed at people like me), it's just the way others play and enjoy the game.
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Fair enough... Of course, I was intentionally being over the top... I am not legitimately suggesting that wife beating story lines get added... but they happen a helluva lot more than once a century. Same thing with players being killed... dozens have died over the last century during their careers. Plane crashes, cancer, drunken boat accidents, murder... you name it.
The line has to be drawn somewhere, as you just attested to, so what exactly is the problem with child death being behind that line? According to some posters, well... that's just caving to weak political correctness... blah blah blah.