User blog comment:Tony 1998/GTA V Controversy Part II: Torture Sequence, Animal Cruelty and So On.../@comment-1907691-20130924181022

Controversy #1: In that case we must sue all the games which have had torture... Far Cry 3 coming to mind first. And before people come to say, "video games make people do things". ...no. You'd have to have some sort of mental instability or have to be of young if video games affect your behavior to think like "oh yay i can torture people in game real life because this game allows me to do that too".

Controversy #2: Animal cruelty? Really? So hunting in a game, hunting a bunch of pixels in a "real-world simulator" has made animal rights activists rage? They're either EXTREMELY bored or haven't heard of hunting in real life. Because... it's basically your own fault if you e.g. kill a dog in the game. The game doesn't force you to kill any animals; how is that animal cruelty? Also, you are not encouraged to kill dogs or pets overall, so I don't see the problem here. It's pretty much saying that if you have real life pets/see real life dogs or see real life animals, it encourages animal cruelty because you can kill them just like in the game.

Controversy #3: Well that's just a crime, nothing good in that. Some people are just so hyped of the game that they'd do anything for it, which in this case was to stab someone to get the game. And no, I'm not defending those guys.

Controversy #4: Well, rape in games... that's sometimes/usually a touchy subject, but in my opinion rape is acceptable in video games only if it's suggested (not graphically shown). It's probably going a bit too far to have graphic rape in games (and no, I haven't seen ME2 alien rape). Neither have I seen this specific scene you talk about, but I did see the random event where the Altruist Cult members try to do something like that on a woman (although if you let it happen, they put her in the car, without any rape visible).

I personally don't have anything against violence/torture in games (wee Prototype), only times I'd probably frown/cringe at a game would be graphic rape or something else that's pretty much sick e.g. in the style of The Human Centipede. And if you do look that movie up because you don't know it, I suggest you go to IMDB.com and look it up there instead of Google Images because I don't know what might appear there, lol (IMDB -> -> Parental Guide or something)... if that was in games, well, let's say it'd at least be kind of awkward.