[Zhukov]

The whole problem revolves around the idea that people will see the old men raping young girls and then try to emulate the behaviour they read about in their favourite manga. i.e being an old rapist. It's not that there is a crime going on at that very moment, it's that these items (the books) are about a prohibited subject (child porn) and they are prohibited because they influence people. The guy got in trouble for having a prohibited item, not because he was raping young anime girls. At least, that's what I figure.


Just like violent video games turning people violent, or shitty gangsta rap making people respect women less, it's ... it's one of those things.

Personally I do think that people imitate what they hear and see. Children especially. This is why most violent movies or video games are rated for adults, and why shitty gangsta rap is laughed at by anyone with a taste in music.

Life imitates art, art imitates life, and then life imitates it. I grew up pretending to shoot my sister and also being a ninja, but I have blossomed into a well rounded individual that could look at a drawn picture of a young girl getting raped and not want to go out and do that, or be turned on by that sort of thing. Unfortunately we live in a shit hole world where not everyone is a well rounded individual, hence the problem lies. There are people that think it is acceptable to think of women as nothing but sexual objects because that's what they heard on a poorly decorated album of Snoop Dog. There are people out there that saw 'Hostel' and thought it was a good movie. There are easily influenced morons in the world and things have to be banned to keep them in check rather than educate them not to be easily influenced morons.