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I explicity said those behaviors should never be made verboten, so don't warp what I'm saying into some authoritarian justification.That's illogical, but that's indeed the line of reasoning every tyrannical country has taken. Most of the world has censored video games and media content. The morality police in the Middle East or the CCP of China. The free world takes the opposite tact of allowing people freedom and creativity, and that's why virtually all fiction comes from just a few countries. People elsewhere aren't allowed to create things, creativity can not ever exist where it's tightly regulated, great artists push boundaries.
Although even in the West there are people constantly trying to remove these freedoms. I honestly believe at some point those people will succeed, and the world will be even more miserable all over. As long as I'm alive I'll at least try to stay free, and I guess I already have enough stuff to keep me occupied the rest of the way. But man it would be so lame to live in those places like KSA and China where tyrants just get to virtue signal and choose what others can consume, and punish artists for making things.
For the others, I think the game exists in the mindset you bring in. If you see it as a harem "collect them all", then that's what it'll be. If you see it as a choice-based dating simulator, then that's what it'll be. For me, the dialogue and relationship style in NIF does not resemble games like Hail Dicktator or Helping the Hotties - rather consider it this way - choice based restrictions on dating wouldnt feel out of place here, and indeed, some paths get closed off when you cheat on certain partners.