In no uncertain terms, if a man were to serve prison time for possession of naked cartoon characters, I would see that as a miscarriage of justice. I hope that there are at least a few people here at GC who share my feelings on this matter.
Somehow, noone has chimed in agreement with this. I am quite shocked. Am I to just assume that everyone agrees ... or? Tyciol, in particular, with all due respect, your responses were the most frustrating for me.
My hopes are Obama will toss that thing's dumb addendums.
I took this to mean his appointed justices will do this. I don't see him touching this issue with a ten foot pole.
That's the sort of stuff more people like (including myself) for hentai, much fewer people like lolicon, and it's not something many people would have the guts to defend.
I absolutely disagree with the implications of this statement. Getting rid of ridiculous laws does not entail a defense of said material. You can refuse to buy it. You can refuse to sell it in your stores. You can refuse to patronize comics stores which sell it. This has nothing to do with liking the material at all. It has nothing to do with the amount of the population that likes it. In fact, even if most of the population hated it, I would still consider it legal.
Here's my reasoning: I do not want any men serving prison sentences for possession of naked anime characters. Period. I do want a single man in my state, not a single man in my community serving a single day in prison for possession of naked anime characters. Nothing else matters. If a law allows this to take place, I care little for the legal reasoning behind it. Any law that allows this to happen is wrong and needs to be removed.
Let us bring our common sense to bear on this issue. This "two-sides-to every-issue" crap that the TV has programmed into us is twisting our brains into collective psychosis. Now a person cannot dispute a law without being an automatic defender of artistic depictions of child sex. Do you see the catch-22 that the the conservative ethos/culture is doing to your brain? Instead of logic ruling our thinking, its now two-sided demagoguery a la television journalism. And this leads into another issue which I will expand on in another post.