Simpsons Sex Scandal

[Anomynous 167]

It could be argued that the characters bart and lisa has been around for more than 18 years.

But seriously, if this is child pornography then Tom and Jerry is animal abuse!

That is pretty much what New South Wales is saying.

 

[Anomynous 167]

When you start saying 'no one got hurt' you open various cans of worms. It's undeniably an improvement over actual pictures of child abuse, but I'm not entirely happy with the idea that some pervert can sidestep prosecution by doing watercolours of local kids performing sexual acts.

Moving away from paedophilia for a moment, if 'no one got hurt' is a valid defence, what about racist images, or sexist images? If I hypothetically make an picture of a Jewish man being savagely beaten (remember, this is hypothetical), should I be allowed to continue unabated, because no one got hurt? You also have issues over censorship and freedom of expression, which I don't think can be simply brushed aside by the first amendment, or similar statutes..

Of coarse you should be aloud... You never mentioned the context ^.^

 

[Arsen]

Simpsons has been around for almost 20 years now. So Lisa is 27 by now. Unless that picture was drawn 10 years ago, no crime has been committed.

I concur.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

One down, now for the sites, then for the people who look at this filth and get turned on!

 

[sky14kemea]

that's... weird in so many ways
punishment was a tad harsh though, it's still only a cartoon...

 

[Anomynous 167]

Is a shame people don?t have common scene nowadays

But I agree with u

Common scence is and will be always prevalant, it is just todays common scence is yesterday's lunacy (In other words, common scence still exists it is just there are so many retards in the world that COMMON scence has been degraded)

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

I hope they gotta charge 90% of the hentai consumers too.. but probably this happend just because its simpsons.

So.. is the simple drawin' of that also illegal? Should the creators of hentai / Rule 34 also get punished? And where do we stop?
Furries also illegal? I mean it's sodomy, right.

Good god, it's a friggin cartoon. You don't have to watch that shit if it isn't for you. Nobody gets hurt, the Simpsons are no real people and the whole story is just a mess showing me again : People have to much free time so they've to fuck with others to get rid of their boredom.

 

[boag]

Actually reading the full link was quite interesting. With respect to the Commonwealth and the New South Wales, their legal definition of "person" did include fictional characters even if they are not realistically portrayed. So this is how the Magistrate made his ruling.

The case was not about whether he was hurting anyone with his particular habit, but it's the discussion of the letter of the law.

That opens up a whole conundrum of lawsuit possibilities.

People could actually be charged for murdering a fictional character.

People could Marry Fictional characters.