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by simion314 1903 days ago
>Consider instead if you had a true compulsion to commit acts of violence. I'm not so sure a psychologist would give you the all-clear to consume media which feeds into that compulsion, even if it would be fine for a mentally sound person.

What do you mean? I should present someone an medical document that allows me to play a video game with violence, and a different medical document for watching adult content?

If that show is promoting child abuse then there should be a law that applies, if is just some art that some people don't like then we should make sure we don't cross a line, next you will have to censor Game of Thrones the TV series and for sure the books.
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cforrester 1903 days ago
I'm saying that violent media is fine for general consumption because the typical consumer is not prone to acts of violence, and the fantasy they are engaging in is temporary. The same is not true of child sexual abuse, where the typical consumer does have a mental illness that compels them to sexualize children.
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simion314 1902 days ago
>The same is not true of child sexual abuse, where the typical consumer does have a mental illness that compels them to sexualize children.

You imply that a big number of people that consume that media (I think the other guy said there are a lot of them in Japan) are sexual abusers. Can you prove this?

If not and you strongly believe in this assumption and the cause I think it should be provable, since there is a large number of consumers, located in certain regions, there should be some increase in crimes when this kind of content was released. Then after we have the proof we can write a paper, get it published, get it criticized and reproduced and then it should be easy to make the content illegal, we use the "think of the children" and politicians won't dare not to support it.

The only issue in the plan is if your assumption is wrong, and there is no statistical effect of the content on the large number of consumers.

If you want to try this plan, probably find someone that is an expert in the domain, someone at a university. maybe one of those scientists that studied video games violence/

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FalconSensei 1902 days ago
> The same is not true of child sexual abuse, where the typical consumer does have a mental illness that compels them to sexualize children.

That's a pretty serious accusation towards people who consume a content, to do without some SERIOUS backing of peer reviewed studies. Do you have any?

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