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You wouldn't call a grown man a little young boy now would you?
Well, if they're a midget or a manlet, yes, just to be nice to them. If they look rather mature, however, then you call them a dwarf.
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What are you talking about? This isn't even about political views or even my own opinions. This is about child pornography and child pornography is illegal.
Yes, cheeze pizza is illegal, however lolicon and shotacon material are not cheeze pizza.
They're drawings. And, the fact that you want to ban
drawings has
everything to do with politics.
As numerous studies, and users in this thread, have verified, there has been
zero connections found between porn (Even fictional porn) causing any amount of crime. If anything, they reduce the amount of crime, with the most "controversial" part being that they may provide an safe outlet for individuals who may pose the slightest amount of risk. So, the concept of
banning porn would cause more harm than good when one steps back and thinks about it.
That's what the studies show.However, you then have puritans (On all side of the political spectrum) that then declare that the "
Studies are incorrect, and 'common sense'' should declare otherwise". Well, in that case, let's use "common sense" to boil this down. First of all, the reason why you would want to ban these works is because they offend you on some level (Personally, morally, consciously, religiously, etc.).
BUT, banning something because it offends you is not enough of a reason to cause people to be arrested over it. I find shows like
Family Guy to be offensive (On a personal level, I find it to be of terrible quality, I don't take offense to the jokes), but that doesn't mean that I will (Nor that I should) lead a crusade against Fox and burn their studios to the ground over it.
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And, in addition to that, I've heard several successful millionaires all repeating a very similar line: "If you're easily offended, don't go on the internet, don't get a job, don't get married, don't have kids, and don't be successful in life."
So, right there, we just established that using "common sense" dictates that "
being offended" is not enough of a reason to ban content.
However, the "common sense" doesn't just end there. You may bring up that "common sense" indicates that you're jacking off to "children" because of one of many factors. First of all, there's the "language" used, and you would be surprised to know that "baby talk" actually is a fetish that
loads of people have (Don't know
why, it's not my thing and I don't plan to investigate). So, language isn't a determining factor. What about body size and development? Well, in that regard, declaring that the character has to be a "certain size" in order for it to
not be "cheeze pizza" then brings you down the rabbit hole that all porn involving midgets and dwarves (Regardless of age) would have to be banned because it is "cheeze pizza". And, if you want to use "body development" as you're gauge, then you have
the HILARIOUS law that already exists in Australia that declares that ANY porn using "flat-chested" models is automatically declared as child porn. So, using "common sense", size, body development, and language used cannot be trustworthy indicates of why you should ban lolicon and shotcan material.
But what about the age of the character? Well, then you have instances such as 300 year old loli dragons in
Fire Emblem: Awakening.
You cannot pin anything down that will exclusively effect only lolicon and shotacon material. That's the conclusion that using "common sense" will lead down.And, even
IF you decide to eventually just give up and declaring that
ALL drawings that can be deemed as "lewd" should be banned (Just as a way to kill a fruit fly with a rocket), then you end up becoming like Worst Korea, where the cops have
LITERALLY HALTED all attempts to stop the production of
REAL cheeze pizza because it's much easier to arrest a coffee shop owner and all her customers because someone was using the shop's wifi to read
Stray Little Devil.
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