Got it off another site...
This sort of things kinna piss me off. Japanese National Police Agency's New Law against "Manga, Anime, Game Expression"
Today, I got an email from a Japanese creator, letting us know about the new law currently being discussed to be applied by Japanese National Police Agency. This is a law to restrict expression of Manga, Anime, Game, that are:
# Image that show sexual expression of characters that appears to be under 18.
(Ex: The character does not have under hair, or character appears to be an under 18 school age child.)
# Image that show characters appears or seems to be under age, that are engaging in sexual act wheather or not if genital part is censored.
My personal thoughts after reading it...
First of all, I don't really hate lolicon art cause i mean, it IS artwork and you can always potray another image (E.g: A character who is matured in character but looks loli). Then again... I am firmly against this form of censorship.
Child porn are bad for kids I must say but does this have to link with drawings? Its true to say that pedophiles may like to view lolicon material, but that's not what turned them into pedophiles in the first place. They are pedophiles because they are mentally that way and not because of some drawing.
What I really think...
Correlation does NOT equal causation
Some examples to show what is Correlation and Causation for those who don't know.
Phenomenon A: The sun rises.
Phenomenon B: The sky turns bright.
A and B always happen together. This is correlation.
A causes B to happen. This is causation.
Now let's say someone is coming home from somewhere when the sun sets.
Phenomenon A: The sun sets.
Phenomenon B: That person reaches home.
A and B always happen together. This is correlation.
But A does not cause B to happen. There is no cause and effect. We can always go home in the day or rather, anytime we
want!
Another example:
Millions of people watch TV. Some of them are serial killers.
Millions of people eats 3 meals a day. Some of them are serial killers.
Millions of people sleep or rather everyone does. Some of them are serial killers.
Just because serial killers play watch TV, eat and sleep doesn't make any of those things the cause of their violent nature.
Similarly, just because pedophiles read loli materials doesn't mean that loli materials turns normal people into child molesters. It may seem very logical to conclude that a person who enjoys loli material will naturally turn into a pedophile, but there is simply NOTHING to support that hypothesis AT ALL.
Censorship does not solve anything. Pedophiles will still be pedophiles. Violent criminals will still be violent criminals.
To me I think there is a very HUGE DISTINCTION between child porn and loli porn. In child porn, children are being harmed by the act itself. In loli porn, no one is harm. Essentially to punish someone for viewing loli porn is the same as thought crime. I think of killing certain people all the time. I just don't do it. Its a very HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Hating loli porn on a personal level is one thing, trying to censor it is another. If someone made it illegal just because majority hates it then most people shun homosexuality. Is it therefore okay to persecute homosexuals and censor any form of entertainment with homosexual influences just in case they become a bad influence to someone?
BUT! I do support age-based restriction because I think a child who's not yet developed can be easily influenced by it. But I can't see why these kind of entertainment can turn everyone who sees it into pedophiles.
