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Originally Posted by BuddyBoy
Edited to add: just reviewed the legal cases, and the laws introduced over the last 10 years. I see the argued theory is that cartoon depictions can lead to copycat abuse.
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I have a
real problem with "copycat abuse" as a legal theory because it can so easily be applied to anything else. If taken to its logical extension, it would ban the depiction of
any illegal, or socially undesirable, activity because someone might decide to do the same, giving us a market-wide Comics Code.
If we ban all depictions (written, drawn, etc.) of children having sex because if they were real they would be a criminal offense, then it is not much of a step to banning all depictions of murder, an even more heinous act, for the same reason. There goes the entire mystery genre, not to mention the TV show
Dexter, where the protagonist gets away with it. Should we not? If someone is likely to abuse children because they've looked at a picture of cartoon children having sex, wouldn't someone be likely to commit any other crime if they've seen pictures of cartoon characters ... or dramatic characters ... or real people ... committing that same crime? Some serial killers
do in fact keep clipping books of their own crimes, or those of other killers they admire; should news articles about them be banned?
I don't want to live where some modern Comics Code Authority has control over what I can read, what I can write, what I can draw.