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NEWS: Russian Man Sentenced in "Child Pornography Anime" Case


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Panzer Vor



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:01 am Reply with quote
revolutionotaku wrote:
Loli/Shota manga & anime are far less dangerous than 30-round semi-automatic military-style assault- rifles.

An assault rifle is by definition capable of automatic fire. If it's semiautomatic only, then it's not an assault rifle. Also, way to toss a red herring and draw a false equivalence at the same time.
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Cptn_Taylor



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:57 am Reply with quote
ailblentyn wrote:
rederoin wrote:
Why should people be forced to lead natural sex lives?
This gets my vote for the wisest and sanest comment in this thread.


Natural sexual life :

gay sex/ lesbian sex
heterosexual sex

Unnatural :

having sex with childs
having sex with animals
having sex with a corpse
Not having sex at all (barring anatomical problems) and fetishing about having sex with children
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shamisen the great



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:16 am Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:


Unnatural :

having sex with childs
having sex with animals
having sex with a corpse
Not having sex at all (barring anatomical problems) and fetishing about having sex with children
I'm going to ignore your baffling inability to see the difference between fantasizing about something and actually doing it. Instead I'd like to say I find it a bit offensive that you equate a lack of a sex life with pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia. I happen to have great difficulty with social situations and have pretty much given up on having a girlfriend. That might make me loser,but I don't think I'm some deviant.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:53 am Reply with quote
How about banning Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes cartoons for promoting animal cruelty? How many cases of actual animal abuse can be attributed to those?
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Cptn_Taylor



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:51 am Reply with quote
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How about banning Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes cartoons for promoting animal cruelty? How many cases of actual animal abuse can be attributed to those?


Let me think. Uhm how about none ? Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:40 am Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
Oh boy, here we go Rolling Eyes

This isn't going to help Russia while they send troops to the Crimean region of Ukraine and turn it into a international crisis.
It's them trying to pull a "Look! What's That Over There!" trope moment whilst they sneak troops into Crimea. Laughing

This is intriguing seeing as Russia is the CP production capital of the world.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:04 am Reply with quote
shamisen the great wrote:
Cptn_Taylor wrote:


Unnatural :

having sex with childs
having sex with animals
having sex with a corpse
Not having sex at all (barring anatomical problems) and fetishing about having sex with children
I'm going to ignore your baffling inability to see the difference between fantasizing about something and actually doing it. Instead I'd like to say I find it a bit offensive that you equate a lack of a sex life with pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia. I happen to have great difficulty with social situations and have pretty much given up on having a girlfriend. That might make me loser,but I don't think I'm some deviant.

In fairness to Cptn_Taylor I think that he was saying that fantasizing about having sex with children instead of having sex is unnatural.
I don't think that he was saying that just not having sex is unnatural.
But I could be wrong.

Personally, I am very curious about what standards he used to differentiate natural and unnatural.
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Hawkwing



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:48 pm Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:

Natural sexual life :

gay sex/ lesbian sex
heterosexual sex

Unnatural :

having sex with childs
having sex with animals
having sex with a corpse
Not having sex at all (barring anatomical problems) and fetishing about having sex with children


Wow, did you just compare a fantasy/asexuality with sex with children/corpses/animals?

How about leading a healthy sexlife, lusting only after girls above the age of consent, while keeping those immoral fantasies to oneself?
In the end, fantasies are still only fantaises. Believe it or not, but the majority of people have some kind of fucked up fantasy. The fantasy itself doesn't have to be sexually related and can be anything from sexual attraction towards lolis or the desire to kill someone. Both are naturally fucked up if they choose to act upon it, but if you keep it as a fantasy; then it's all okay.
Watching a Hollywood movie and get thrilled by the violent action scenes, would be equal to getting horny from watching a fictional image of a child in a sexual position.

Here's an example:
I don't deny that I'm sexually attracted to lolis, but that does not mean I'll go out and kidnap a child and rape it. I also have a fetish for femdom and brutal ballbusting, but that fetish alone does not mean I'll let a woman kick my balls. Rolling Eyes

Do you see where I'm going with this?
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Cptn_Taylor



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:38 pm Reply with quote
Touma wrote:

In fairness to Cptn_Taylor I think that he was saying that fantasizing about having sex with children instead of having sex is unnatural.
I don't think that he was saying that just not having sex is unnatural.
But I could be wrong.


What I meant to say is that having sex is a natural part of our lives. Unless you're a Saint and devote your life to God I find it very difficult to believe that a person would actively refuse to have sex for his entire life. This doesn't mean you have to have sex every day, but one that actively shys away from human contact for his entire life is in my view a man/woman with a big big big problem.


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Personally, I am very curious about what standards he used to differentiate natural and unnatural.



We can look to animal behaviour for instance as a starting point, but it's obvious that we humans are not just animals. We have a conscience, a soul and our laws (wether our society is based on a judeo christian tradition or a muslim tradition), our laws are based on what we perceive in part to be morally right or wrong. And yes what we perceive to be right or wrong changes more or less with time (once upon a time slavery was the law of the land, nations and empires were build on slave and slave labour, yet today no society allows slavery).
Having sex with children is a terrible thing to say the least. And while not on the same level, producing literature that stimulates the fantasy of the reader to imagine having sex with a child is also bad. And therefore I have no problem saying I'm against the production of lolicon and shotacon manga/anime.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:40 pm Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:
No of course not. BUT :
You can still be convicted if you plan to do a homicide but don't carry it through (and there are proofs of this of course). So your analogy is quite flawed.

Kinda missed the point I was trying to make. This case and many others are examples taking people to court for viewing fictional drawings of sexual acts involving children. What's crazy about it all is people are being convicted for viewing artwork involving paper and lines; no actual living breathing minors were involved and it's just porno anyway.

The reason I bring up homicide is because it's an equally horrible crime to commit and yet it's everywhere in the media. Some really great works of fiction contain elements of murder and regardless of this, many examples are celebrated by fans and critics. If a person who watches a horror film or a murder mystery were judged the same way a person is judged for viewing some lolicon material, then everybody who's encountered a murder in fiction would be convicted of a homicide.

You mentioned thought crime in your response and I see what you're getting at, but I doubt everybody who's ever seen a murder in fiction wants to kill someone, just like I doubt everyone who's ever seen a porno wants to sexually assault someone. Consider EVERYONE who's ever seen works like The Godfather, Scarface, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Sweeney Todd, Hamlet, etc. etc. etc. I doubt EVERYBODY who's seen those have ever made plans to kill someone or even considered it at all and there would be A LOT of people to convict if they were judged just by watching the examples I mentioned.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:51 pm Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:
[our laws are based on what we perceive in part to be morally right or wrong.

No laws are, or should be, based on what is harmful. Not on what people think is wrong or right.


By the way, sex with childeren(<18 years old) is natural. Doesn't mean it should be allowed though.
Asexuality is also just as normal as bi/homosexuality is.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:07 pm Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:
What I meant to say is that having sex is a natural part of our lives. Unless you're a Saint and devote your life to God I find it very difficult to believe that a person would actively refuse to have sex for his entire life. This doesn't mean you have to have sex every day, but one that actively shys away from human contact for his entire life is in my view a man/woman with a big big big problem.
Thank you for making very clear you have a horrible understanding of human psychology. Asexuality is nowhere near the same as "shy[ing] away from human contact", which in and of itself isn't a "big big big problem"; some people are just not very social by nature.
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We can look to animal behaviour for instance as a starting point, but it's obvious that we humans are not just animals. We have a conscience, a soul and our laws (wether our society is based on a judeo christian tradition or a muslim tradition), our laws are based on what we perceive in part to be morally right or wrong. And yes what we perceive to be right or wrong changes more or less with time (once upon a time slavery was the law of the land, nations and empires were build on slave and slave labour, yet today no society allows slavery).
Having sex with children is a terrible thing to say the least. And while not on the same level, producing literature that stimulates the fantasy of the reader to imagine having sex with a child is also bad. And therefore I have no problem saying I'm against the production of lolicon and shotacon manga/anime.
Terrible != unnatural; even slavery is just an expression of the desire to gain with the least amount of personal effort. And once again you expect us to subscribe to the notion that the ability to separate reality from fiction somehow weakens at the line of porn, with no evidence to support the assertion. Ultimately, you want to ban something because you don't like it - an impulse that has given mankind no end of problems.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:52 pm Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:

What I meant to say is that having sex is a natural part of our lives. Unless you're a Saint and devote your life to God I find it very difficult to believe that a person would actively refuse to have sex for his entire life. This doesn't mean you have to have sex every day, but one that actively shys away from human contact for his entire life is in my view a man/woman with a big big big problem.

Because no priest would ever molest children...
Cptn_Taylor wrote:

We can look to animal behaviour for instance as a starting point, but it's obvious that we humans are not just animals. We have a conscience, a soul and our laws (wether our society is based on a judeo christian tradition or a muslim tradition), our laws are based on what we perceive in part to be morally right or wrong. And yes what we perceive to be right or wrong changes more or less with time (once upon a time slavery was the law of the land, nations and empires were build on slave and slave labour, yet today no society allows slavery).

Pretty much this entire paragraph contradicts your main point, do you know what you are arguing anymore?


Cptn_Taylor wrote:

Having sex with children is a terrible thing to say the least. And while not on the same level, producing literature that stimulates the fantasy of the reader to imagine having sex with a child is also bad. And therefore I have no problem saying I'm against the production of lolicon and shotacon manga/anime.


Because no sexually normal person has ever looked at a 17 year old girl and thought daaaaaayyymn! Keep in mind we are talking about 14+ girls here, an age at which they can be legally married in many countries (including parts of the US) and religous doctrines. Not to mention these are fictional characters without a real age.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:33 pm Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:
#809957 wrote:
How about banning Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes cartoons for promoting animal cruelty? How many cases of actual animal abuse can be attributed to those?


Let me think. Uhm how about none ? Twisted Evil


Do you now see the pattern?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:20 am Reply with quote
Cptn_Taylor wrote:

Unnatural :
having sex with childs
having sex with animals
having sex with a corpse
Not having sex at all (barring anatomical problems) and fetishing about having sex with children


unnatural because you and the majority who want things that way say it is.
Gotta love closed doors, those who do the "unnatural" deed certainly do.
Me, I don't care, eff whatever you want but don't try to force me to do as you say.
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