Comment Re:These are just symptoms. (Score 1) 327
You can't just write off sexual imagery as "part of their culture". Sexual imagery is part of *every* culture, whether it is "allowed" or not. Here, it is allowed in both japanese and western culture, so this point is doubly irrelevent.
In fact, the only difference (vis-a-vis explicit imagery) between japanese and western culture is that japanese culture places more emphasis on personal responsibility and maturity.
Contrast this with western culture's insistance that "nothing is ever your fault" and that "you can always blame somebody else", and it's not surprising that people blame more problems on porn/violence/whatever, whether it is justified or not.
It *is* possible that children in the west *are* more affected by explicit images, but (if they are, a point still undecided) surely a better solution is to arrest this cultural slide into immaturity than to (yet again) just fix the symptoms.
If a situation like this arises (external "threat" versus parental responsibility), the automatic outcome is removal of the threat, *not* tightening of parental control. Basically, inattentive parents hand-off control to the authorities, simply because it's easier than they themselves doing anything about it. The answer is not to mask the symptoms - the answer is to go for the source of the problem.
No-one cures measles by painting over the spots.
TTFN,
In fact, the only difference (vis-a-vis explicit imagery) between japanese and western culture is that japanese culture places more emphasis on personal responsibility and maturity.
Contrast this with western culture's insistance that "nothing is ever your fault" and that "you can always blame somebody else", and it's not surprising that people blame more problems on porn/violence/whatever, whether it is justified or not.
It *is* possible that children in the west *are* more affected by explicit images, but (if they are, a point still undecided) surely a better solution is to arrest this cultural slide into immaturity than to (yet again) just fix the symptoms.
If a situation like this arises (external "threat" versus parental responsibility), the automatic outcome is removal of the threat, *not* tightening of parental control. Basically, inattentive parents hand-off control to the authorities, simply because it's easier than they themselves doing anything about it. The answer is not to mask the symptoms - the answer is to go for the source of the problem.
No-one cures measles by painting over the spots.
TTFN,
