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Hey, Answerman! [2006-07-28]

Those of us in the U.S. are use to the concept of free speech (and I use the term "free" loosely), but wake up and realize and accept that not everything's free, even in this country. All societies need rules and boundaries, in my opinion. I hate it when people spout "freedom of speech, we can say whatever we want, whoo!" It can be abused. I believe we need a little freedom of speech restrictions either by law or society.

And just because Wikipedia says nothing proves lolicon or child porn leads to pedophile attacks doesn't mean they didn't encourage or affect them. Stories in the news of pedophiles with any kind of kiddy porn (real or animated) says a lot. They at least encouraged or affected him. Especially when said predator had a huge stash of it.

Within Japan itself, the dramatic increase in available pornography and sexually explicit materials is apparent to even a casual observer. This is concomitant with a general liberalization of restrictions on other sexual outlets as well. Also readily apparent from the information presented is that, over this period of change, sex crimes in every category, from rape to public indecency, sexual offenses from both ends of the criminal spectrum, significantly decreased in incidence.

Most significantly, despite the wide increase in availability of pornography to children, not only was there a decrease in sex crimes with juveniles as victims but the number of juvenile offenders also decreased significantly.

I like Zac's avatar. Not that that has anything to do with anything. I recently watched Howl's Moving Castle, and I absolutely fell in love with it.

If I fantasize about being with monkeys, but I'm never actually with a monkey, does that make me fantasizing about monkeys okay? Isn't it still a little bit icky? Maybe it's a Picasso monkey, so it doesn't even look much like a monkey. It's just an image, painted on canvas, and hell, maybe most people think it's a dog. (What's up with my dog obsession today?)

When you've rebuttled against as many people as I have, I wouldn't be surprised if you would be a little irritated when dealing with the same blockheads over and over.

My bashing as of late is an attempt to stop these people from presenting their distorted philosophy from ever voicing their opinions. The notion, "everyone's entitled to their opinion" is wrong if the opinion is fundamentally rooted in someting immoral, such as, oh, pedophillia.

By making an example of the fools here, I hope to illustrate how arsinine any argument in support for something like that truely is. ANN is the "hub" of the anime world with thousands of people representing websites of different varities coming here, and to the forums, for wisdom and discussion. As such, it's also a prime jetstream for spreading ideas, good or ill.

I apologise for any unnecessary insults, but I think the vast majority of them were well warranted and I have no regrets.

I shudder when I hear people say things like this. You cannot restrict free speech AT ALL and still have "free" speech. It's the same thinking that makes people say "You can't disagree with the president...we're at war!" and soon you're sliding down the slippery slope to totalitarianism.

If I fantasize about being with monkeys, but I'm never actually with a monkey, does that make me fantasizing about monkeys okay? Isn't it still a little bit icky?

Perhaps I'm just in utter shock that there are people willing to defend child-pornography. Regardless of what anyone personally thinks on the subject, the fact is that when someone creates an anime or manga that sexualizes children, that's what they were trying to do. And I'm sorry, but that's wrong.

Do we seriously need to turn this into a moralistic battle of ethics?

I am not defending child pornography. Everytime I see a CP flood on 4chan, I get sick to my stomach. Whenever I see a loli flood on 4chan, I'm like "Oh hey, a thread about the kind of hentai that I prefer!" Does that seriously make me a pedophile?

You need to learn what words mean before you use them and you also need to stop trying to sound smarter than you really are. "Moralistic battle of ethics" is just... c'mon. You don't know that morals and ethics are not the same thing?

I doubt you get "sick to your stomach" whenever there's a "child porn" thread on 4chan (that they have those there, apparently, is absolutely nauseating) considering if they post those exact same pictures again except THIS TIME it's a drawing instead of a photo, so you're A-OK with it!

You are a pedophile. You are sexually attracted to children.

Better start paying for the therapy or preparing for jail time.

Lol, its sad when people in /b/ are more reasonable than a well known columnist

Also, wow, you're a jerk.

I doubt you get "sick to your stomach" whenever there's a "child porn" thread on 4chan (that they have those there, apparently, is absolutely nauseating) considering if they post those exact same pictures again except THIS TIME it's a drawing instead of a photo, so you're A-OK with it!

You are a pedophile. You are sexually attracted to children.

Better start paying for the therapy or preparing for jail time.

Sorry I hurt your feelings or made you think twice before beating off to kiddie porn.

^__^ Silly Zac. You've done nothing of the sort, especially since lolicon isn't kiddie porn.

Zac wrote:

Sorry I hurt your feelings or made you think twice before beating off to kiddie porn.

^__^ Silly Zac. You've done nothing of the sort, especially since lolicon isn't kiddie porn.

Right, because it's just drawings of children being raped and abused and tortured.

You're totally in the clear, man. You're an upright citizen who goes to work, does a great job, gives a thumbs up to his boss on the way home, grabs a latte on his way back to the apartment...

And then boots up animated Japanese porn involving 8-year olds being raped, beats off, and then goes to bed.

Clearly this is a totally normal situation and does not involve you fantasizing about children being raped and abused, at all.