Rape is terrible but murder is grand?

I lived in a house with 3 girls and 1 guy, first I met the girls and we all got on really well, still friends with them now. 3 days into college and I still hadn't met the guy but I could hear him in the middle of the night shouting to himself about how he is going to kill someone and then rape their insides. This freaked me out because I had initially thought he was on the phone to someone and my impressions of him from the girls was that he was crazy, the girls however had never described his appearance so I had convinced myself that he looked like a very hairy Hungarian bodybuilder rapist when in fact I saw him walking past me in the hall just leaving my apartment, not knowing who I was, he looked more like a dark haired milky bar kid.

He hardly ever left his room, not even for classes or for food it seemed. We checked his press in the kitchen and it only contained the "essentials" pot noodles, crisps and orange juice (yes, not even in the fridge). Every night it was the same, he would be shouting and screaming in his room for hours until about 4 or 5 in the morning, shouting sentences like "Your a f*ckin noob b*tch and im going to skull f*ck your grandmother" or "I'm going to kill you, F*CK! F*CK! oh f*ck that sh*t, you go f*ck yourself dude, im going to rape your f*cking sister like a black man!", now I am a very heavy sleeper, i've slept in a sand dune in the middle of a thunder storm but still this shouting would wake me up every so often. But the poor girls in the house were kept awake all night and were begging me to go knock on his door to get him to keep it down. So I knock on the door and he answers, first thing i notice is the horrendous smell that has just come bellowing from his room and drifted right past my nostrils, it smelled like Bigfoot's d*ck! He looks like he hasn't slept in days, wearing the same clothes every day, then I notice that he has an xbox in his room, of course, he was playing online against people, this explains the shouting. So we ask him to come inside the kitchen and tell us about himself. He tells us he has OCD, he loves playing Rainbow Six Las Vegas 2 and he loves crisps. We ask him to keep it down and he said he will.

Next night he is at it again, shouting threats in his room at 3 in the morning, one of the girls knocks on his door and says keep it down I have an exam in the morning. There's silence, next thing he busts into the girl's room and says if you ever ruin my game of Rainbow Six again i'll f*cking kill you, ye dumb f*cking b*tch, slams HER door and goes back at it again. This is where the girls tell me to beat him up, ehh f*ck no! Rule number 1, never mess with a crazy person, you'll wake up with no legs and your liver replaced with a car battery. Next day we call the college and report him. They dont do much just come by and talk to him. He is at it again, but this time he hasn't left his room in about 3 days, without any sleep! And he won't come out of his room. He has locked and bordered up his door.

The only way to contact him is through Rainbow Six Las Vegas 2, so one of the lads at college has to go into the game, go online and join a game with him to negotiate with him to leave his room. I can just imagine them in a hostage situation! "Come out and put your hands up, we got the place surrounded, think of your family, you still have a chance to make things right with them!" haha, this idea managed to get through to him and he came out, his parents packed all his stuff up and moved him back home. I still see him the odd time around college and I think to myself, that young chap could of stabbed and raped me in my sleep

smash wrote: »

But of course it will cause insult because of it's meaning. You hear people joking about wanting to put eye drops in their bosses coffee, but if they said they wanted to put aids infected blood in their bosses coffee you'd think they were a psychopath.

Again it depends on the tone it is said and the context!

If they said it, whilst twitching and staring menacingly at a blank space in air it could certainly be a cause for concern!

Take the example above of the pundit describing the defender as getting raped, many times after a match if I played bad I'd remark that "I got raped a few times." That context I would deem acceptable.

If I was talking to a friend and commented on their good appearance saying " You look well, I'd rape ya." Not acceptable.

Blowfish wrote: »

This appears, not just in relation to rape, but to sexuality as a whole.

Basic example would be TV. It's somehow ok to show murder and violence during daytime TV, but not nudity or sex. The same applies to videogames, murdering is apparently fine, but if there's any nudity, there's generally uproar.

It's a little odd considering the difference morally between them.

Depends on where you are. People here in Germany would have the same views as what the OP is saying. But here you will find nudity at any time of the day on TV, whereas they have a bit of thing about violence (probably because of their history). Sex in video games is ok, but too much violence and the game will be banned.

History probably plays a big role. In Germany people have a very violent history behind them whereas in Ireland people were brought up in a very sexually repressed society because of the Catholic Church.