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INTEREST: U.S. State Department Includes Japan's 'Unfettered' Access to Animated Porn in Human Right

So? I'm okay with anime not being mainstream: We have access to every show as they air online and almost half of them are released and even dubbed. We don't need a big Hollywood-like push to get anime mainstream and have titles suddenly being censored to better "respect American culture".

leafy sea dragon wrote:

Depends on the household. Since you're depicting a rather extreme scenario

Yes, it does indeed depend on the household, but I'm failing to see what part of his scenario is so extreme. Let's break it down:

- I'm not sure if the 12-year old bit is an exaggeration, but popular fashion dictates risque clothing for tween and teenage girls (and also paints unrealistic expectations, but that's a different argument).
- iTunes is a popular platform for downloading music, and a lot of popular music in the U.S. does in fact revolve around encouraging and glorifying promiscuity and drinking. That's a fact.
- Weed and drinking among teenagers has always been popular and still is.
- The internet is everything, and with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, and Twitter being so prevalent among youngsters, of course teenagers will want laptops and iPhones, the use of which can't always be restricted, esp. with the latter.
- The Kardashians are popular and role models, as sad as it is, it's just a fact.

Overall, there's very little extremes in his scenario, in my opinion. Yours, on the other hand, does very much seem to be on an extreme end of the spectrum. Not denying that there could be people like that out there, but I doubt it's anywhere near as common as the above, and even then, what percentage of those people defy their parents and do the above things in secret anyway?

Hence: The US government should distribute child pornography in the form of manga as medication for pedophiles. Since these people don't choose to be into kids, then drawn/fictional kids are the way they can get off without harming anybody else. Hence, a society where pedophile manga is allowed is strictly better than one where it is not.

In the West pedophiles are chemically castrated under the law. Too bad for then, its a punishment for being born that way?

Japanese culture is more advanced than Western culture in many ways. One of these superior elements is the development of pedophile porn without actually harming any children. The US government shouldn't try to prosecute cultures that are different but learn from then, specially in this case when the cultural difference when a foreign cultural element is superior and should be mimicked instead of demonized.

<sigh> Pot, Kettle, here we go again. <sigh>

Mark Gosdin

Mangagamer got into this hot seat four or 6 years ago about a loli sex scene. Their response was shocking. "We understand and the ultimate responsibility lies with the consumer.

That's rich, considering that the United Kingdom shoulders just as much responsibility for the current state of the world as the United States. You shouldn't be throwing stones at the glass house on the other side of the Atlantic from inside your own glass house, limey.