Comment on Norwegian Man Arrested for Playing Dorei to no Seikatsu

• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HOI4 is an interesting choice for an analogy here.

  It’s unanalagous in that HOI4 sanitized itself of the Holocaust specifically so people wouldn’t be able to roleplay committing xenophobic genocide, unlike the game in question which is specifically designed to let you roleplay a pedophile rapist preying on the already abused.

  However it is tangentially analogous in the sense that anime tends to have a bit of a Nazi bar issue with pedophilia thanks to people (who I’m gonna have to assume are well intentioned) unintentionally making room for pedophiles to exist and operate with arguments just like the ones you’re making here.

  Of course video games don’t cause violence. The only people interested in the pedophile rapist roleplay visual novel, though, are very likely people with an interest in pedophilia. The government is right to monitor and remove people who acquire CSAM instead of going to therapy from society and it isn’t overreach to protect children in this way. Is there a potential for such a system to be abused by the government? Yes, of course, but such is true of any system. Preventing government abuse and corruption is separate from stopping the distribution of CSAM and protecting children from predators.

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is no shortage of real CSAM creators to go after. Shouldn’t we prioritize going after those people ahead of drawings of cartoon characters?

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• KatakiY@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah sorry but people who jerk off to the pedo rape game are definitely pedos.

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am a good thought haver and I signal this by telling everyone bad thought havers should be executed

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  • delcaran@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are right, but being a pedofile should not be a crime. It’s a sexual deviation from the norm, maybe a disgusting and/or dangerous deviation, but it’s nothing different than coprofilia.

    If the pedofile do not act on his/her desires and there is no illegal material or action involved, just let him/her be.

    Keep an I on him/her, of course, seek counseling, but act only of and when the perversion is growing out of control.

    Same thing with drugs: if you can afford them, good for you (and welcome to high society). If you can’t afford them and you screw your relationship over it, fuck you and seek counsel. But if you start to steal, kidnap, or hurt people in anyway, that’s where the line must be drawn.

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    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, but pedophilia is vastly different than coprophilia and other outlandish fetishes in the scale of harm to others and the inability for it to ever be consensual.

      I could talk about how pedophiles also tend to seek positions where they hold power dynamics over children, even ones who don’t act on their desires, increasing the likelihood of abuse, but I think your point is moreso about a hypothetical pedophile who doesn’t act on their desires, doesn’t acquire CSAM, doesn’t surround themselves with children and simply struggles internally with their fetish and actively seeks professional help on how to maintain a safe life for themselves and others.

      Yes, I suppose that person doesn’t need any government intervention in their lives outside of the monitoring you suggested.

      That said, this particular article is about a man who did seek out, acquire and consume CSAM instead of seeking therapy. The government detected this and removed him from society such that he cannot be a threat to children. That sounds about right.

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  • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And pedos deserve to be in jail because they looked played a game? Or in general? Shouldn’t we just save the taxpayer’s time and send them to the camps?

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