I am very upset about killing children.
Do you think killing adults is ok while killing children is not? Does being 18+ years of age automatically diminish someone's worth as a human being? You're looking at a game about being a serial killer, for God's sake. How does it matter of what age the little @'s you murder are?
You appear to have wildly misinterpreted me, and taken the opportunity to put words in my mouth. What I was trying to say was that I don't think adding children into the game will add enough to the gameplay experience to justify the bad rap the game will get for not only
having but for actually
encouraging (by virtue of there being no other use for them, and that the game happens to be centered around it) the torture and murder of young children.
Personally, I don't mind. And hey, I'd be just as game to try out the occasional child murder profile for a challenge. However, the developer appears to be somewhat disinclined to crossing
too many boundaries, as he made it clear that if he
does include sexual crimes in the game, you won't be able to do them with kids. Again, I personally don't take great issue with a game that lets you rape kiddies (particularly not one where you can't actually see anything), but the dev seems to view the negative reaction from such a feature as a concern.
I'm just trying to put a different perspective on the pros and cons of the issue, so that he can reevaluate whether or not he thinks it's worth it to program kids in the game.
In short, don't do that again.