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Hey, Answerman! [2006-12-01]

how can you say no to those limited edition dvds funi is putting out?

Drawings of children being raped is illegal in some countries including Canada. Even if it is imaginary it's still child pornography. If it isn't hentai wouldn't be sold to people an 18+ crowd because drawings aren't real.

Most people who look at child pornography images on the internet are child molesters.

When you see one fanservice discussion, you've seen them all.

I'd just like to point out that "the next installment of Negima" (it being "Negima!?") so far includes ZERO naked-skin-panty-shot-type fanservice and focuses almost completely on moe/cute-type fanservice. In any case, it is not sexually flavored at all. It's a wonderful representation of Akamatsu Ken's personal beliefs about anime moe and sexuality about which he wrote in his personal blog.

mistress_reebi wrote:

Most people who look at child pornography images on the internet are child molesters.

Wow, most? That's quite a statement.

By your logic, "most" people who watch hentai which features rape, are rapists. "Most" people who watch anime with murder are murderers, or would like to be. I think it's pretty obvious that this isn't true.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't care what people get aroused by as long as it doesn't harm anyone in real life. I think most people who look at loli porn are not child molesters, and may in fact be totally against pornography depicting real children because of the emotional, physical, and psychological harm done to them. They feel ok looking at drawn images because no one was harmed to make them, but harm a real child, and most of these people would be disgusted.

I ment regular, non lolicon, hentai.

If it's just drawings then hentai wouldn't be sold to people 18+.

Most people who look at child pornography images on the internet are child molesters.

Drawings of children being raped is illegal in some countries including Canada.

mistress_reebi wrote:

Most people who look at child pornography images on the internet are child molesters.

A study of Swedish court records found that 40% of people who were convicted of possessing child pornography had also been convicted of molesting children. Outside the courts the figure is probably lower. After all, when a pedophile gets arrested the police is likely to unearth child pornography during the evidence search. Still, I figure the actual percentage to be alarming enough.

It's similar the Dawson Shooting; the shooter had a problem to being with and his escape was violent video games where innocent people are burned, sawed in half, etc. The games weren't satisfying so he went to the college and shot a bunch of people.

mistress_reebi wrote:

It's similar the Dawson Shooting; the shooter had a problem to being with and his escape was violent video games where innocent people are burned, sawed in half, etc. The games weren't satisfying so he went to the college and shot a bunch of people.

And on that note you've pretty much killed your arguement. By making that one statement you're also basically saying that all people who play violent video games turn out to be murderers. It's not the loli that makes the pedo and it's not the violence that makes the killer, but rather the other way around. A murderer is more likely to play those kinds of games, but how many people do you see going around town blowing each other's heads off with bazookas? I can bet you that number is pretty low.

Same thing with loli and the like, the people who are more likely to commit the crimes will probably have this stuff, yet there's many more people who like this stuff that are not commiting these crimes. It's the difference between saying "Every child molestor has loli/child porn," and "Everyone who has loli/child porn is a child molestor," the former of which is almost always the case, and the latter of which we don't know because we don't know the percentage of people who like loli. As I believe someone mentioned before, most child molestations come out of anger and are usually within the family (or within the church....bad priests...bad) rather than acts to get sexual pleasure from a child. Of course, there have been cases in which people have molested children for pleasure, but that is not nearly as high as the number of molestations that aren't for pleasure.

mistress_reebi wrote:

It's similar the Dawson Shooting; the shooter had a problem to being with and his escape was violent video games where innocent people are burned, sawed in half, etc. The games weren't satisfying so he went to the college and shot a bunch of people.

And on that note you've pretty much killed your arguement. By making that one statement you're also basically saying that all people who play violent video games turn out to be murderers. It's not the loli that makes the pedo and it's not the violence that makes the killer, but rather the other way around. A murderer is more likely to play those kinds of games, but how many people do you see going around town blowing each other's heads off with bazookas? I can bet you that number is pretty low.

Same thing with loli and the like, the people who are more likely to commit the crimes will probably have this stuff, yet there's many more people who like this stuff that are not commiting these crimes. It's the difference between saying "Every child molestor has loli/child porn," and "Everyone who has loli/child porn is a child molestor," the former of which is almost always the case, and the latter of which we don't know because we don't know the percentage of people who like loli. As I believe someone mentioned before, most child molestations come out of anger and are usually within the family (or within the church....bad priests...bad) rather than acts to get sexual pleasure from a child. Of course, there have been cases in which people have molested children for pleasure, but that is not nearly as high as the number of molestations that aren't for pleasure.

It's similar the Dawson Shooting; the shooter had a problem to being with and his escape was violent video games where innocent people are burned, sawed in half, etc. The games weren't satisfying so he went to the college and shot a bunch of people.

mistress_reebi wrote:

It's similar the Dawson Shooting; the shooter had a problem to being with and his escape was violent video games where innocent people are burned, sawed in half, etc. The games weren't satisfying so he went to the college and shot a bunch of people.

But that was an exception. You might not call the players normal but everybody else who downloaded that game didn't go on a school shooting. If the shooter let a game sway him then he was pretty close to the edge already and something else could have set him off just as well. What's more worrying is how the media manages to make exceptions look like the norm. This creates unnecessary fear among people and restricts everyday behavior. In Sweden they polled young women about how many females they think were murdered each year. The average number given came to 5000 a year. The actual number? Under 40. In short, you have to be extremely wary of perceptions, since they often have little to do with reality.