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Russia bans anime? What a bunch of fucking nazis. Glad we got the 1st, and the whiners on the kun don't run the show.
Urotsukidoji is a fucking classic.
Indeed. Again, glad we have the first. Fate/Apocrypha was genius.
Just divisionfags.
>harms young children’s spiritual and moral education
This is what the conservative movement in America wants to do, though. Remember growing up? "Violent games cause you to be violent!" I've played Counter Strike to the tune of 1000s of thousands of matches. I never once learned how to do anything in that game. I never tried to construct additional pylons in the street, or convince my friends to dress like acolytes around a sacrificial pit, or thought I was dhampir.They're just games and movies. Listening to death metal or gangsta rap might've caused me to blow some money on speakers, but nothing seriously offensive came of it. Watching movies (or adult movies when I was older) were always just creative wastes of time. It's all fantasy/escapism. Freedom of speech, and expression in film, music, and interactive entertainment.
>I did manage to learn the lyrics of the Humpty Dance by heart when I was 11, though.
If the point of all this craziness was to program me to "lose my spirituality" it failed. Miserably. Indeed, my big turn offs were the evangelical movement, fundamentalists, church in general, shit doctrines, conflicting scriptures, and the nagging suspicion that killing your own kid for the sake of mankind never made any fucking sense. If Russia wants to program everyone into samethink, then the left's fears of the right being like Nazis are validated in that alone. Not everyone on the left wants to gender-bender kids, or completely abolish other people's interpretations of God or right to worship how they choose. They'll poke fun, and that's fine and dandy. Free speech doesn't mean people have to kowtow to anyone's perspective that "this one subject is untouchable because it's your opinion of the ultimate truth".
Humans are complex. Expression is complex. Games, movies, and artistic expression of all types are complex. A lack of understanding and knowledge, caused by a sheltered, pre-programed indoctrination, shapes people's perceptions to attribute an externalized metaphysical meaning based on literalism. Messages interpreted from centuries old propaganda mostly unattributed from dubious authors, whose structure doesn't flow, and original intent serves no other purpose than to shape and reform the minds of its subjects to a desired mold. And if you didn't accept the message, you were put to death. That's why they didn't want people reading it for themselves because even back then people were calling bullshit.
Except St. Patrick. He was OK. And a couple of others. It's not all bad. Just the extremists are annoying as fuck, and we probably shouldn't let them control government. Jefferson and Paine warned people about that.
It's a B running a C in order to do A while giving the bad guys the impression they are doing D.
Love Thomas Sowell.
It's just pixels on a screen
How you choose to interpret their meaning is up to you
Ever think that creators might be poking fun at perceptions just to rile conservatives up?
Ever think the intent was to go over the top to for the purpose of being a warning?
Nobody wants hell on earth, and the purpose of Doom is to defeat it, ultimately, in the end. The biggest shift in all entertainment has been technology driving realism. It seems/feels more realistic. I'm not saying it has zero affect. I'm saying that creators, whether it's music, movies, tv shows, adult entertainment, games or otherwise should not be penalized for the lack of proper parenting. That's a societal problem, and you cannot legislate yourself into fixing that. Conservatives are taking the position that since parents can't parent properly, the government needs to step in and control everyone so we're all more moral.
If you take a kid growing up in an environment where Doom is handed to a 6 year old and the parents are gallivanting around doing whatever the fuck, that kid's already at a disadvantage. It's not the state's job, however, to fix that problem. That's a familial affair. Aside from real cases of real abuse and/or neglect, frankly, it's no one else's business. You can't fix society by punishing creators.
You can fix society by getting involved in its institutions, and providing a better path to help your community at the local level. Start an after-school program to help disadvantaged youth, or get involved in one that's already going on in your locale (I guarantee you there is one local to you). Sponsor a kid to play on a sports team. Take them to/from games. Be a friend or life coach to them.
Speaking from experience, here.