I believe I understand what you mean now. Although I still don't necessarily believe that possession of speech in and of itself, even abhorrent speech, to be an immoral deed, providing material support to and facilitating the spread of abhorrent speech certainly can be. I'm certainly not going to die on the hill of lolicons having some kind of moral right to acquire art that satisfies their desires or that art having the right to be legally sanctioned everywhere. I hope I haven't given the impression otherwise.Count Lucanor wrote: ↑January 30th, 2021, 6:00 pm In our society, when something highly sensitive as children's safety is at stake, I think we should.
It is not relevant that an actual crime is being committed, but that the conditions where such crimes are made acceptable are promoted. As immoral as many crimes portrayed in media are, and despite the fact that their portrayal can actually make them appealing (gangsters looking like rebel heroes, for example), none of them is comparable to sex with children, which is taboo in our society (not in all).
(Incidentally, if an administrator sees this post, would one kindly deactivate my account? I came to this community for answers to very specific quandaries that I had been wrestling with, and I have now received all that I wanted from it.)