[WikiEN-l] request to Jimbo for out-of-process deletion of image

[Ben McIlwain]

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Philip Welch wrote:
>> My second question is: how on Earth did this shit ever get to be  
>> *legal*
>> in Japan?  Some people are *really* sick.
> 
> Revulsive as it is, I fail to see how making an ink drawing violates  
> anyone's rights. The reason child pornography is illegal isn't  
> because it's sick, it's because it can't be produced without sexually  
> assaulting children, and sexually assaulting children is wrong (as is  
> financially supporting such assaults).
> 
> Cartoons don't necessarily involve assault. They're just revolting.

Also, the OP is making a judgment value based on his own cultural biases
and preconceptions.  There's lot of "weird" stuff that goes on in
cultures different than our own ... arranged marriage, marriage of
children, marriage of adults to children, eating really strange and
weird foods, sharia/oppression of women, etc.


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Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")

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