Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160620045649

Mediawatcher wrote: Does murder and rape running rampant make a setting crapsack?

Not automatically but very often, yes.

It depends on if such acts are also common, if it is just a heavy crime-wave it could simply mean new law-enforcers need to be hired. How many old westerns have murder and abuse of woman as common themes before the new sheriff shows up? Those old spaghetti westerns aren't crapsack worlds, they are just not tended to.

Such acts need to be across an entire society with now infrastructure that makes them taboo.