I think it should all be fair game. Just a matter of how graphic everyone is comfortable with. There is no need to describe in detail child abuse or rape, or gleefully describe a murder because it adds nothing to the game.
But, if you are intending to provide some type of description of the situation the characters encounter, you need to have the freedom to do so.
As an example, one of the 1632 novels described coming upon a scene of a peasant family that had been "questioned" by marauding soldiers about any valuables that had hidden away. The author detailed enough that (if I recall the particular passage) he described a child being disemboweled and the grandfather being crucified in the front door of their hovel.
Horrific? Yep. Graphic? Sure. But it put in the reader's mind a concrete detail to identify how evil these marauding soldiers were - and it fit perfectly with the fact that peasants weren't worth much in 1600s Europe. In a post-apoc situation, the average European citizen would probably find themselves in a similar horrible situation.
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