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04/15/09
Why can't someone just tell Japan that pedophelia is NOT OK?
This is friggin getting out of hand.
04/15/09
[www.sankakucomplex.com]
No, this is not getting out of hand.
04/15/09
Don't bullshit me.
These people are still having lewd fantasies about children. They are still in the same mindset. And the material is still out there, only drawn.
Making things readily avaliable is a step towards allowing it completely.
04/15/09
04/15/09
Just my thoughts.
04/15/09
Seems like this new chapter got a bit too much a loli theme, though.
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04/15/09
I guess it WOULD be a tutorial if that line could actually work.
04/15/09
I'm detecting a massive error in this quadrant, sir.
04/15/09
@Justin42: I've heard that discussion pt. brought up before, but am not sure if it's ever been fully discussed. Here's where I think the difference lies - sex & violence, though often lumped together, are two very different animals, and are dealt with differently in videogames.
I'm not saying that a person doesn't get some sort of a chemical reaction going on when they get a headshot in Halo, but there is a disconnect from reality when playing that game than if they were doing it in real life. A healthy person would know the difference - also, a healthy person (imo) would be in it for the game and would not be into videogames searching for the grotesqueness of violence. I believe that even a game like MadWorld, though doused in violence, is out there enough that nobody really considers it to be reflective of reality.
But anything sexual is straight up encouraging a person to react to the material in obvious, unspoken ways. And if that material is of young girls, it's teaching people to react to those images of young girls.
Whether they are actually going to go out and commit an act of pedophilia is beyond the point, imo. Why even mess around with this dangerous habit of encouraging people to think in that vein? This kind of stuff doesn't douse the fire, it adds slowly to the flame. At worst, someone uses it as a stepping stone to something worse, and at best, it causes general complacency in the populous about this issue.
I love Japan to a fault quite often, but this is one thing I can't stand about this place.