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INTEREST: Lerche Comiket Goods Includes Ranpo Kitan Hugging Pillow

Wow....... All this butthurt over a little hugging pillow with a fictional character drawn on it? Yikes

TL;DR: Societies advance, values advance with societies, and if someone can't adapt then the problem is with the person, and will remain so until they can demonstrate otherwise, be reformed, or eliminated, and this is not about acting a fictional scenario or not in real life, but just the mere inability to not derive pleasure from the fictional scenario presented, in this case pedophilia.

Welcome to the 'mainsteam' anime western fanbase.

What the heck is the point in drawing a girl and calling it a boy anyway?

So eventually we got the idea that children for whatever reason deserve some minimal levels of protection, protection that no one is really invested on enforcing (mostly because no institution of power really cares about children, which are mostly just used as political means, but not as objectives themselves), and thus we still have child slavery, labor exploitation, and child pornography in various media, among other imparities, some even existing without mayor problem even when they should not, despite this being perfectly defined as an undesirable factors in society, for their sole ideas are already contrary to the main principle of protecting and promoting the protection of children,

some may delude themselves that their shameless support for fictional pedophilia is fine as long as no action is taken against real children, ignoring that their support for fictional pedophilia is already an act of violence against children.

the whole point of this all is to keep order and control.

So when someone appears trying to engage in an anti-value within a society, this subject is already rebelling against the established norms,

and for that their only argument so far is that works of fiction have no repercussions on reality and thus possess no harm, but this is a fallacy for the sole representation is already an exposition of support for a problematic behavior which should be removed from the root, a behavior that comes from the consumers themselves in the form of desire, so the problem never was if someone acts on it, or if a child is harmed by it, the problem lies within an inability of fall in line and embrace the imposed values, is a problem of order and obedience first,

TL;DR: Societies advance, values advance with societies, and if someone can't adapt then the problem is with the person, and will remain so until they can demonstrate otherwise, be reformed, or eliminated, and this is not about acting a fictional scenario or not in real life, but just the mere inability to not derive pleasure from the fictional scenario presented, in this case pedophilia.

You would really love to live a in dystopia, it seems.

Rederoin wrote:

Welcome to the 'mainsteam' anime western fanbase.

You're telling me, buddy. By the way, in regards to your earlier comment about the goods being sold only at Comiket, there are a few websites that sell goods that were sold at Comiket - probably just what was left over, but still. You might try finding some of them if you want this pillow. I, myself, might do that as well.

support for fictional pedophilia is already an act of violence against children.

Doomroar wrote:

support for fictional pedophilia is already an act of violence against children.

OK..... try and explain this using any reasonable argument. How is someone watching fictional pedophilia harming real children?

Doomroar wrote:

support for fictional pedophilia is already an act of violence against children.

OK..... try and explain this using any reasonable argument. How is someone watching fictional pedophilia harming real children?

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm and vitriol? ( The argument against your stand here is that "100% repulsive" is subjective. What is repulsive to some might not be to others as everyone has a different tolerance level. If we pander to every single person's idea of objectionable content, no one can say anything anymore. In a world where freedom of expression exists, the onus is on the person not to get offended (by arguing back, dealing with it or ignoring it) as opposed to silencing the dissenting opinion.

Ignoring the fact that morals are not set in stone, if you want to pull out the "historically" card to justify violence, I can just as easily say that at one point in human history before we became civilized and invented the idea of morality, any human who had reached puberty could be considered a potential mate. After all, propagating the species was the priority and how is that not beneficial for the human race? ( Not to mention, utilitarianism dictates that the action will indeed be moral.

None of which has any direct bearing on freedom of expression to make trash like these pillows. However, as an artistic expression designed for viewer consumption, it's perfectly understandable to react in disgust at even the imaginary suggestion of child pedophilia.

I whole-heartedly support freedom of expression. At the end of the day though, if your fetish involves a vile, disgusting slime of a concept, there's also nothing wrong with expressing an opinion that the work is utter, contemptible filth. It 100% has the right to exist, and it's also 100% repulsive. Sounds about right to me.

This sexualizing of young prepubescent fictional characters wether on pillows or in anime (like boku no pico) is disgusting, morally repugnant and yeah should be made illegal.