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Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn
Ever get the urge to look at pornographic drawings of famous cartoon children? Neither do I, but 28-year-old Kurt James Milner did, and that's what got him registered as a sex offender. Police received a tip about the pornographic material and eventually found images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls on Milner's computer. Back in 2008, a Supreme Court judge in Australia ruled that cartoons in which child characters engage in sexual acts is child pornography. Milner said he downloaded the images to show them to his friend 'because he believed they were funny.' Guess it's not so funny now.
I don't get it. I just don't fucking get it.
Goverment trying to take away your privacy? Meh.
Corporations and wealthy people gaming the legal system for fun and profit? Yawn.
Corrupt politicians rigging elections? *snore*
Government trying to take away the 'right' to cartoon child porn? Holy shit. It's time to take up arms and mobilize the civilain milita and fight this freedom infringing evil.
Don't give me that BS that it's a victimless crime. It does not change the fact that you're a dereanged weirdo that is spanking off to kids.
but it doesn't make any sense if the perpetrator and the victim are one and the same
You just seem unable to parse simple English. Like him, you are using the "individual" and "society" as if they were interchangeable, and they're not.
Were we to follow your logic, we'd also decriminalize many other things including but not limited to:
- all drug use
- suicide
- all public nudity
- public urination and defecation
- speeding, jaywalking, and pretty much all driving laws
- trespassing
- poaching
- bribery/corruption
- many types of pollution
- theft/destruction of public property
That's off the top of my head, although I know there are at least a dozen more I could come up with, and probably hundreds you could dig up in various bylaws. Every nation except for the US would also have to get rid of their gun laws, which would be interesting. In any event, since none of those crimes have a direct victim who is "someone other than the perpetrator", according to your logic we shouldn't have any of them.
What you - and many like you - fail to realize is that most laws don't exist to protect individuals. They exist to protect "society". Whether or not that's a good thing is open to debate. What kind of society we want to have is also open to debate. However, as long as you're under the impression that laws are meant to protect YOU, you can't possibly make an informed contribution to those discussions.
This could be due to the fact that normally you'd find large breasts on fat women... which is objectively disgusting :P
Sigs are for the weak.
So you're implying I'm a pedophile now?
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That's a 10 year old's penis and an 11 year old's vagina, having sex. If you separate them, and turn them into flip art, it even becomes animation.
Congratulations, you've all just downloaded child porn. A police officer is on his way to your house.