Maaaan, I could point out some silly fallacies in both the person's article and Umiman's agreement. But then I'm sure Moron would come going rabble-rabble-rabble must have college grade logic curses and whatnot and then I'd have to go find my curriculum and take a photo and so on and on all because the retards agree with the conclusion, now how they reached it. But I digress.
Anyway, I disagree with censoring anything and everything. While I do agree that everyone should have the right to deny their image to appear to the masses, I think that content made to be viewed shouldn't be censored, no matter if it's grotesque or disgusting.
The only exception, for me, would be snuff or something similar, where what's being done is real and that's the whole purpose of the recording. Allowing those would just enforce the horrible act being done in order to produce the movie.
Of course, in games nothing is real, the argument of 'taking part' is simply void as it's not real. It's not even close to virtual reality. A second mistake is the whole quoting the rating mature. The mature refers to physical age, as children may be more susceptible to the influence of interacting with something that's violent, even if it's not real. Psychologically unstable people might be influenced as well, but in my view, it's just a matter of time til those snap one way or another, I don't believe a game or a movie would be the main reason for any crazy shooting there might go around. People are more than welcome to disagree with that, but in any case, exceptions don't make the rule.
Taking out someone's freedom to play a gorey game is more of a crime than a protection. It's judging both developers and gamers for things they have never done in real life and will most likely never do.
So why would anyone make and play games like that? Because you can, because it's not real, and because it might be fun.