The thing about virtual reality, is eventually violent virtual reality will be a thing. In addition virtual reality eventually will be photo realistic. So people who are more sensitive to seeing violence than others will be in a position to declare that everyone should be just as sensitive to seeing it as them, or in essence the logic being that everyone should feel and react to violence as they do. The ban might start at violent video games but what is really going on?
- One group of humans feels a certain way about certain thoughts in the brain or mind of another group of humans.
- Group A which is disturbed by the thoughts of group B decides that there should be a law banning anything which encourages or enables the thoughts of group B.
The problem is, if we look at it like this, then we can see anything which disturbs group A can eventually be banned. It might be violent video games today but really whatever the zeitgeist determines is the fashionable thing to ban from the global mind will be banned. This could have a long lasting impact on the species and on the individual. In fact, how will individualism survive in a world where certain thought patterns are systematically disapproved and everything associated with these thoughts banned?
It might not be possible to directly ban violent thoughts, but they can ban violent video games, violent movies, violent lyrics, etc.
"or in essence the logic being that everyone should feel and react to violence as they do"
It always seems to come back to collectivism for these "feels" arguers, doesn't it? They quite literally want to enforce the same feelings for everyone at the barrel of the State's gun.
I gotta be honest, when I decided I would take up the mantle of reason and logic in every discussion, I did not see myself being forced to defend pedo-bots from...not even basic logical fallacies, but the complete and total absence of even an argument. It's not wasted effort for all the reasons you point out in your second-to-last paragraph, but, ick.