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NEWS: Canada Outlines Which Anime Can Cross Border

@whoever the hell it was that said morality becoming higher means less tolerance:
How is tolerance not morality? Tolerance is a virtue. Actually, I don't much like tolerance, personally. I don't want to be tolerated. I want to be respected. Point is, tolerance is part of morality. The only way you could think otherwise is if you follow the position of a Christian minority who considers sex to be the only issue that falls under the morality umbrella.

I think the only question I'd have on Canada's censorship policies is, on whom does the burden of proof rest?

Personally, I'd want it to rest with the government. The government has to prove that the content is degrading, harmful, and lacking in artistic or medical merit before they can ban it. The individual should not have to prove that it isn't degrading or harmful and that it has merit.

Again, all of this is designed to ensure that as little as possible is prohibited. Negima, however riske it may get, has a story and is a comedy; that gives it merit beyond pornography, no matter how young the characters might be.

Personally, my feeling that is that the argument that characters aren't real unless they're real people... well, it's insulting to any writer who goes to the effort of trying to cmake a character feel real. You laugh, cry, and even get aroused because the character feels real to you. But this gets us into the impossible world of somehow determining what you're thinking when you read something, so I'm not saying that should be the standard. I'm just saying that there exists a middle ground of characters that are real in an emotional or mental sense. Which sounds weird, I know. But think how not everyone really gets why a lot of us find drawn characters to be hot; "realness" is in the mind of the beholder.

And lastly, I do think that sexual degradation is a whole other level of bad beyond violence. Not sex period, but rape and other forms of sexual abuse are, to quote a certain TV show, "considered especially heinous." It's the element of corrupting something that ought to be wonderful that makes our skins crawl, I think. When this kind of sexual violation then gets used to elicit arousal, we're even more appalled. Higurashi, for all its horror, is, well, horror. It's not intended as erotica.

I'm sure that no border guard is going to misinterpret that comical scene as something perv-y or illegal.

Canadian Customs Agents

Go CANADA!

Yeah, it was an oversimplification. Obviously you can draw characters who are adults but otherwise quite flat and with little hair.

I think the more important question to the canadian government is: Why are you so intent to ruin people's lives over some drawings?

This reminds me of the whole effing deal with the mohammed caricatures except it's now the west doing the punishing.

And politically speaking, I don't think any Canadian, regardless of how they voted, has any right to call Canada "progressive" as long as Harper is in charge.

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Ganryu wrote:

I think the more important question to the canadian government is: Why are you so intent to ruin people's lives over some drawings? This reminds me of the whole effing deal with the mohammed caricatures except it's now the west doing the punishing.

Yeah, cause Customs confiscating stuff, and then sending a letter to the owner explaining why it's been confiscated really does ruin lives. It is definitely on the same level as a terrorist hunting down and murdering someone in cold blood because they had the gall to draw a picture.
Man, it sure is tough living in such an oppressive, terrorist country like Canada.

Seriously, do you guys even think before spouting off this crap? This type of fear mongering, and misinformation doesn't help anyone.

Many anime series feature adolescent characters who are technically underage;

Evangelion stars 14 year olds; it has no explicit on-screen sex acts involving these characters, there's occasional nudity but its not sexually suggestive.

how would this new law in Canada affect the transmission of Eva and other similar shows?

_V_ wrote:

Many anime series feature adolescent characters who are technically underage; Evangelion stars 14 year olds; it has no explicit on-screen sex acts involving these characters, there's occasional nudity but its not sexually suggestive. how would this new law in Canada affect the transmission of Eva and other similar shows?

Well it definately wont be good at all for anime fans. Not good at all. One thing's for sure,cause of this , if Kodomo no Jikan EVER gets dubbed , it'll definately get banned in Canada. Which is kinda stupid.

_V_ wrote:

Many anime series feature adolescent characters who are technically underage; Evangelion stars 14 year olds; it has no explicit on-screen sex acts involving these characters, there's occasional nudity but its not sexually suggestive. how would this new law in Canada affect the transmission of Eva and other similar shows?

Doesn't affect. Misleading or bad intentions would be a problem but there is none. Unless a lawyer smack me for this statement, that's how laws usually are sanely applied in my country. We don't over do it like the states. We always check the circumstances around it.

Thank god it don't have that in the US thanks to the constitution.