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Hey, Answerman! [2006-08-04]

I like how everybody here has become an instant expert in the field of psychology.

Mass intelligence upgrade? Subliminal classes taught through staring at ANN's banner ads? I'd like to see the tuition fees before I enroll in this lofty new technological endeavor.

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Oh, and a pedophile isn't a criminal. A child molester/abuser/solicitor/rapist is a criminal. If somebody THINKS about something, no matter how henious you find it, it's not a crime. To persecute a person for their thoughts is Orwellian and scary.

But that's just my opinion.

I posted in a forum that I feel is very credible on this subject this very post:

I like how everybody here has become an instant expert in the field of law.

Mass intelligence upgrade? Subliminal classes taught through staring at ANN's banner ads? I'd like to see the tuition fees before I enroll in this lofty new technological endeavor.

btw, should we be letting everyone arrested for possession with the intent to distribute and conspiracy to commit charges out of prison? Technically, they are only thinking about a crime.

No fact checking. No asking people who have seen the anime. No attempt to get first hand knowledge of what he was talking about. It has little kids and its aimed at adults, so it has to be sexual in some way. And when called on it, his first response was not to listen to anyone who had actually seen the anime, it was to dismiss their ideas and cling to his own completely unsubstantiated propoganda.

It's sad.

I like how everybody here has become an instant expert in the field of psychology.

Mass intelligence upgrade? Subliminal classes taught through staring at ANN's banner ads? I'd like to see the tuition fees before I enroll in this lofty new technological endeavor.

What sort of "sickness" a person who enjoys lolicon is up for debate - but not by a bunch of otaku on an internet message board. Most of us are sputtering morons who can barely string together two sentences to express our opinion of Japanese cartoons. And now suddenly we're all PHDs and experts on both Japanese culture and the fields of sociology and criminology. Get over yourselves.

It's hilarious how the majority of the "debate" on this subject in this thread is simply the reiteration of one's base reaction to lolicon and hardly rooted in logic. Then, of course, we have the grammar-deficiant trolls and the newbies who simply post to say how "sick" lolicon fans are and "How can anyone possibly defend it?"

Free speech isn't just defending the speech or expressions that you like.

Lolicon is drawings. Drawings. Whatever sort of "action" these drawings inspire is a symptom of a deeper issue, and not the catalyst itself. Nobody's being abused or exploited in lolicon, and while it does paint a picture of anime as being sort of "skeevy", that's just a price of the fandom.

Oh, and a pedophile isn't a criminal. A child molester/abuser/solicitor/rapist is a criminal. If somebody THINKS about something, no matter how henious you find it, it's not a crime. To persecute a person for their thoughts is Orwellian and scary.

But that's just my opinion.

You're turning into an unreasonable person pretty quickly.

I saw the marketing materials. I watched an episode of the show. I know how Japanese marketing works.

The SHOW ITSELF might not actually BE lolicon material but the way it's SOLD is, and you can't deny that. Again, LOOK AT THE MARKETING MATERIALS. I'm not really talking about the content of the show, I'm talking about the way the show is presented.

A lot of you have a very bad habit of not really listening; you just rephrase what I said until it matches something you can argue against.

I saw the marketing materials. I watched an episode of the show. I know how Japanese marketing works.

You do? So what determines the way the show works is based entirely on one episode?

The same can be said for both sides.

I'm sorry, does your argument not boil down to "lolicon is totally fine and we should be able to shout that from the rooftops"?

Because ultimately I feel that's a destructive, selfish and ignorant viewpoint, one that is ultimately unfair to the entire anime community.

I'm sorry, does your argument not boil down to "lolicon is totally fine and we should be able to shout that from the rooftops"?

I'm sorry, does your argument not boil down to "lolicon is totally fine and we should be able to shout that from the rooftops"?

Now, a good debate would be whether Puni Puni Poemy is loli-con (which I don't think qualifies, others may disagree) or Doruku-chan is loli-con (which I think is, others may disagree) and compare and contrast to figure out a better way of determining intent and execution in relation to loli-con material.

There's no getting around the stigma that watching something like Higurashi no whatever means you're attracted to little girls.

I watched an episode of the show.

This is one show where you can NOT base the entire series on one episode.