[devonin]

Originally Posted by Kilroy_x

The more abstract a representation becomes the less it actually remains a representation. Lolicon is to paedophilia what furry porn is to bestiality; which is to say, sometimes there's a link, more often there isn't. Child pornography is harmful to the children who are used to produce it, and for that reason production of child pornography should be punishable as should the purchase of child pornography. When something is just a drawing there's no victim. It's a victimless crime. Your gut feelings may scream moral indignation, but since when do feelings get in the way of realities? Oh wait, I forgot what society I live in. My mistake.

Seriously, outside of some elaborate slippery slope argument I doubt anyone can give me a reason why anything made with pen and paper should be illegal.

I'm not sure that "A drawing of a naked little girl is at least somewhat as morally problematic as a picture of a naked little girl" would really consitute an "elaborate" slippery slope.

I'm not trying to draw a connection between the two to say that lolicon = child porn, so much as I am making an implication that those who are into the lolicon culture are looking at it as a "legal" avenue to child porn.