My mate told me a nice story about her being on a TV panel in the 1980s set up to comment on video violence.
One member of the audience suggested a plot that (can't remember the exact details, but you get the idea) had a daughter who, in a relationship her dad disapproved of, having him cut off her hands and feet, and behead the boyfriend and parade it around.

The panel responded with of course that's disgusting and awful and exactly the sort of unnecessary violence we mean that doesn't hold any value or anything, and the response was "Yeah? Well that's the plot of Henry V (or whatever) by Shakespeare" hahahahaha
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 12 May 2010, 13:15, 2 replies)

Titus Andronicus
perhaps.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Wed 12 May 2010, 13:19, closed)

Yeah
But like I say - you get the idea.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 12 May 2010, 13:38, closed)

If I was banning works of fiction that inspired violence
I'd start with the goddamn Bible and work my way down from there
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 12 May 2010, 13:57, closed)