Wow you're all awesome, I go to lunch and that's a page and a half of sensible rationalness. The one other place I tried this some idiot just said "Yeah but I don't care about anime nerds wank material" and then proceeded to troll for some time.
I love you guys.
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I don't know about banning representations of child porn and rape. I suppose as far as CGI is concerned, the closer and closer that CGI characters get to becoming almost photographic (Ok, not there yet, but it may be a possibility in the future), where is the boundary if there is to be one?
Well there isn't and shouldn't be one. Child porn is banned because a child has to be abused to produce it. No matter how real the CGI this isn't the case.
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This is part of the same law that caused the FaceParty site to start kicking out people aged over 36, because they might be sex offenders. It also bans pictures of xTR33m sex, something along the lines of anything that causes harm to breasts or genitals.
Both of which I'm really pissed off about too btw.
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The same (something 'broke' inside their heads) could be said (and often is said, by me) about gay people.
Er - without the "kids" bit, obviously.
Absolutely, the problem of course is consent which, rightly or wrongly, we've decided anyone under 16 can't give.
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Let's not forget of course that, technically speaking, both boys and girls start to sexually mature (physically, not mentally or emotionally) around the time they become teenagers. So those who are attracted to post-pubescent kids aren't really "sick" as such, they're just acting on the biological impulses wired into us all. It's still wrong, precisely because the kids in question aren't mature enough mentally/emotionally to be able to consent, which is why there are laws in place about it.
And indeed, despite what the Sun will have you believe, being attracted to an older looking kid is NOT paedophilia, Peadophilia relies on them looking and being pre-puberty and to confuse the two only reduces people's perceptions of paedophilia to "Wowsers look at that 15 year old!".
This specific point has come up before...
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And crucially, nobody wants to be a paedophile. Most people who are would rather be normal, know it's sick and fucked up, and some seek help.
I struggle to agree with this, I'm sure it was said about the homosexual at some stage.