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Originally Posted by Samuraisedge
Well put Shinobu. Probably some of the people opposed to this, are using some excuse that loli/shota manga will encourage pedophilia **cough**bullshit**cough**. The same excuse some make about violence in movies or suggestive lyrics in music inducing violence. Just a means to get things their way.
Like what you said in the last paragraph, there's violence, rape and sexual content in TV and Movies, but there isn't a crusade to have it banned. It's almost laughable.
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Quite the contrary, music is very influential on human emotions and hormones as well, so suggestive music can indeed induce violence or 'immoral' behaviors, though not directly. (It is more of a catalyst for such behavior rather than a direct cause of it.)
With movies, the general purpose is to appeal to the audience's tastes, and these violent movies can indeed get very disturbing, but it seems to be more intended to play with our degree of sanity we can take. (Though the law does limit how violent things can get, if the sanity and appetite of the viewers are at stake.) Plus, violence and other contents in movies are often used to show that these things are
wrong and must be stopped, to tug on our 'heart strings' so to speak, so there's more complexity to the issue of movies than people take into account. That still doesn't justify the existence of pornography, though, which I dislike. (If this is necroposting, I apologize.)
Moving on, well, controversy will always exist. If you can't stop the Japanese from hunting wales, why not instead try to run some private protection and breeding programs to help increase the population of wales as they're endangered, where they'll be kept privately safe and allowed to multiply, rather than trying to stop them from continuing to hunt wales? Why not also see if Japan can help in the efforts of such breeding programs so that their 'hunting' will do less damage to the overall population?
And with the lolicon issue, it's usually about a taste in art or style. Generally, there are loli and shota characters in any and nearly every anime medium, whether intended as a fetish or as just another character. Though oft-times people do get rather carried away with their fetish in terms of 'art'. In some ways it disturbs me, though in other ways it appeals to me.
Moving on... I believe people are entitled to their own opinion and are to stick to it, and even voice it, try to say that 'certain things are wrong' and so forth, but absolutely forcing them to change isn't going to do any good and likely will escalate issues, rather than help matters. A more passive method tends to be surprisingly more effective in some ways.
On another note, I somewhat agree with Susano's point above.
Though Dac is right in that just because a work has such content, doesn't mean it lacks merit. (In fact, there is fiction that plays on the terrors of what these events would be in
real life in an effort to motivate people to try and
stop it from happening and/or
not do it themselves. The irony is that these movies wouldn't get criticized for such content, yet they'd all still hate seeing anything with this content and try to destroy it contrary to having seen the movie and enjoying how it tugged their heartstrings.)