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the animation age ghetto

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by ijffdrie, Dec 4, 2009.

the animation age ghetto

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by ijffdrie, Dec 4, 2009.

  1. Fenix

    Fenix Moderator

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    I can answer that question.

    How much ridiculous sentencing do you see coming out of the Netherlands? Companies forced to pay huge sums due to the stupidity of the consumer? People making a living out of suing people? No, that's an American (and possibly British, though that's slightly different) thing.
     
  2. EatMeReturns

    EatMeReturns Happy Mapper Moderator

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    At the risk of looking like a pervert, some information...
    It's not even close to common, either. Mostly it is over-exaggerated, almost comical adults engaging in sexual activity, followed by "alternative" (personally, EW) hentai, which I'm not going to go in to detail, and lastly you have the hentai in which the characters sport "child-like" features. Seeing how most of the last is generally illegal anyway, I doubt that any store selling hentai magazines is going to target elementary school children with child-like content.

    I agree in that a legal system is probably the most difficult thing a government can tackle, and the U.S. has done so (in my opinion) in one of the best ways. However, such a large and free system with high media coverage is where you will see so many frivolous and absurd cases, which is a positive thing: It shows the system is working the way it was meant to work. I'm not saying that these cases deserve any more than comical publicity or that the outcome should be in favour of the person suing (I forgot the term...), but I am saying they should exist. I'm not going to comment about the absurdity of this case; however, because I did not read the article.
     
  3. Higgs Boson

    Higgs Boson New Member

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    Wait what? Are you trying to tell me that certain hentai pornographic material is illegal in USA?
     
  4. ijffdrie

    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    yeah, there have been cases of conviction for owning so-called "shotacon", "lolicon" or "toddlercon" in several american states, canada, mexico and brasil.(i know this because i made a thread about it after i read an article about a man being convicted for owning naked drawings of dora la exploradora(from the cartoon) and i did some research).

    What does being in front of an elementary school have to do with anything? It's still in an area they can not reach, and thus are not exposed to it.
     
  5. Higgs Boson

    Higgs Boson New Member

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    Unless there is something more going on then that's complete bull****. What is the poster boy country for freedom doing locking up its citizens for harmless drawn kitty porn?
     
  6. LordKerwyn

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    Fenix I don't here much of anything coming out of the Ntherlands at all, but considering the U.S. is the news capital of the world, I live in the U.S. and most news in the U.S. it's that difficult to imagine incidents from other countries getting drowned out.

    People aren't worried about kids being exposed to the material but exposed to the people who would buy the material. There is a reason a lot of communities get in an uproar when they discover a half way house near or a registered sex offender. Now like I said originally most people who would buy the material are benign, but it's the small subset who aren't that worries people and give the rest a bad name (and also make selling such material near a school problematic).
     
  7. ijffdrie

    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    A person that would do that would have no trouble taking a detour to get near little schoolchildren. Distance less then 50 km means squat
     
  8. Fenix

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    I understand completely, as I too live in the US. However, I also trawl a lot of international news sources for the simple reason that I like reading about law in other cultures (there`s that anthro nut me in rearing its head again). And yeah, I`m not saying other countries are immune to stupid rulings (*COUGH*uk*COUGH COUGH*germany*COUGH*), there`s just a lesser amount.

    I`m not saying other places are perfect, `'m not claiming they're better than the US, I`m merely asserting that, from what I see, they have less silly rulings.

    That`s all.
     
  9. Higgs Boson

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    They also have less judges, less courts, less people and less legal suits. That might affect the final result.
     
  10. Aurora

    Aurora The Defiant

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    There aren't that many lawsuits in the news here at all. Especially not any about people trying to squeeze money out of big companies. It's mostly government people suing companies for giving to much bonus cash to their top employees. Especially since the crisis thing.
     
  11. Fenix

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    @Higgs - I'm actually using the EU as a whole for this discussion.
     
  12. Higgs Boson

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    I still think you are bias although nobody can be expected to be completely objective. Even I think that the 'crazy lawsuits' are more of an US export rather than Europian one however I think that it is a bi-product of your advanced legal system. While there is plenty of 'crazy lawsuit' anectodes in the west (namely USA, perhaps Britain or France/Germany) when you go east of there you hear less and less about this crap but you also get much worse courts which take disproportionally longer time to solve cases and are incredibly ineffitient in comparison to the west.
    This is my casual hypothesis.
     
  13. darkone

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    Idk about the time thing there Higgs. Sometimes it takes years to deal with very simple matters.