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Jan 9 15 3:13 PM
It is just that I thought you just wanted to discuss what the BBC had in mind and while I understand that it gets complicated and is in need of some endeavors to complete, the BBC seems to have a narrow viewpoint… but whatever…
… “I agree and pointed it out as an option in the opening post. Maybe we should just butt out of it politically, but it doesn't mean we can't discuss it.” We can John. So your idea that … any graphical depiction, real or virtual, of children should not include gratuitous violence, abuse or sex. With your suggestion that you “personally think that one person's "individual freedom" ends when it breaks the law.” Okay, I disagree if we are discussing “Individual freedoms” but must add that it is when they actually break the law and are convicted by a court of some criminal act.
Just thinking about restricting such pornographic thought infringes on lunatic scenarios in my mind that takes away the individual freedom afforded to our country’s citizen.
When you say “As pointed out above, at least in the West, depictions of the kind we are discussing are already banned here. As well as it being illegal, I also find it offensive (though that is not sufficient reason for me to want something banned).”
There is a subtle thought mixed in there that has a cryptic value attached …
It suggest to me that you favor banning even some comic’s insinuation are against some law that prohibits the kind of sarcasms shown by the Paris events of the last two days of which you refer to with: “We've seen in the last couple of days attacks upon free speech in France and are likely to see more such attacks. So I'm not advocating banning anything that is not already banned here, just discussing whether countries that allow it should be encouraged to follow suit.”
And I thought the BBC mag. was only concerned with how Japan was in acceptance of the cartoons… and “Why is it banned here if it is only a matter of "taste" or "individual freedoms"?
I stated, using my one great point that, that was because Japan is a democracy but with only one major party. It’s the liberal way or the highway over there. To me Japan is more or less a social Nation because of that one dominating party.
Unlike the USA and the UK where conservatism verses liberalism reigns supreme and where moderates are supposed to emerge, notice I said was supposed to do so, Japan falls under mostly a one man rule of one extreme or the other in my opinion. In the USA we have two party that usually act like only one with subtle differences. I say usually it is hard to distinguish one from the other, other than the conservative/liberalisms features.
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