XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: aj153@fuspamma.freenet.carleton.ca   
      
   Galen Musbach wrote:   
   > Let me consider the point further. Tokyopop is trying to   
   > protect their retailers by creating a system where only obvious   
   > parental negligence would result in young children being   
   > traumatized by material that is simply too much for their   
   > undeveloped minds.   
      
   Which brings around the crux of the whole ratings/censorship dilemma:   
   Parents.  All of these things are the direct results of Western parents   
   being too chicken/lazy/stupid to do the job that they should have taken   
   on when they decided to breed.  If the manga and anime companies had any   
   balls and brains, they would flip any complaints by "concerned parents"   
   right back at them.  They'd say things like, "Excuse me, but if your kid   
   is old enough to even begin to comprehend some of the things in here,   
   why haven't you taught them yet about what they are, what they mean, and   
   the consequences of these things occurring in the real world?  Raising   
   your kid is your job--not ours.  Don't keep kids ignorant; that only   
   makes it easier for them to become victims."   
   --   
   Dave Watson, Severed Heads Liberation Front (Stretcher CD-R--sevcom.com)   
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          Craig Hall, 1975-2005--Good friend and kindred wild spirit.   
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