PC Gaming

A) the game's rating would skyrocket as it'd almost universally get upgraded to an AO rating or equivalent (not sure if that's actually something they care about though)

B) while not technically illegal afaik, there are a number of countries that would almost certainly ban the game if it showed children being killed. My understanding is that's why child deaths occasionally show up in movies and TV, but tend to be avoided like the plague in video games.

Because to the black and white people out there it's bad that a child can come to any amount of harm no matter how fictional those children may be. It's a similar trend to the old anti-game movement because these people believe the sort of person who picks up a digital AK47 and clip dumps some NPCs is the sort of person who would do the same in real life and thus shouldn't be able to in any capacity, as if removing an entirely fake playground stems true homicidal rage and definitely doesn’t point to failed parenting in teaching consequence or genuine mental illness.

This would make me want to do even more degenerate things in the game