I agree that thought is impossible to police and am not convinced that we should even try. It's the distribution of material that depicts child abuse and child rape that I am talking about. As far as I'm aware, anime and manga never really took off in the west for whatever reason but in Japan there are
millions who buy it and, by inference, enjoy looking at fantasy children being abused - sometimes violently or horrifyingly, but always sexually. I think you have answered your own question here John. Consider whether or not you personally are in favor of “Banning” or *cough* … “Individual freedoms” a64358ab4e658ef7b1dbdf4952e3a88402cc87f_

It's not so long ago that a raging debate was going on about whether images of
real child abuse should be banned. The west took that course back quite early in comparison to Japan, which didn't take that course until 1999, according to that article. Should more pressure have been applied to Japan to introduce laws against such material earlier and should pressure now be applied to encourage the sale and distribution of cartoon/pixel child abuse to be banned there? Japan is a “Democratic Nation” but with one -unopposed-  liberal minded national party. So ask yourself this: Would you be in favor of being pressured by the moral standards accepted by Japan? smiley: eek