Punishment should be as fictional as the crime.
Regulating what someone does while alone with fictional, lifeless content isn’t about protecting.
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Very helpful, I’ll be sure to utilize these! Thank you so much for these arguments 
You know what the worst part about this idea of “future crime” is? That people who go to prison for attempting to meet a minor and getting arrested before doing anything, or people caught with CSAM or in those few cases, dolls, and other instances of line-skirting; are all labeled Cho-Moes in prison and once again, outrage and vigilante actions get them seriously hurt or killed.
Based on hearsay, embellishment of their crimes by anyone hearing about them and making assumptions, guards ratting them out knowing they’re likely to get killed. It’s like the game of telephone.
And it could be that person did nothing but find a few pictures online, or were sent to them by the FBI because they were in the wrong chat rooms and were coerced into entrapment. Or the “crime” of owning a doll. Or creating a picture.
Now imagine your crime of an anime or lolicon drawing and now you’re facing prison yard death? Or because I have an imaginary, rubber, family? Or the person that only ever used their doll and never went near a real kid? This “future crime” and moral panic needs to stop! Let teenagers figure out who they are without burdening kids with teenage stuff at a young age too!
Since I try to stand for dolls (and anime and lolicon), or anything fictional that people enjoy in private, without harming anyone. Of course I won’t excuse a perpetrator that has ruined some young person’s life or murdered them. But stop throwing everyone into the same woodchipper!!
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Just to clarify. There are a couple groups when it comes to crimes of fiction. The worst part is they’re all thrown into the same dumpster.
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People caught for attempting to meet a minor by texting them, and then being arrested before leaving the house. Solely based on intent (not that I don’t disagree that it’s a terrible thing they wanted to do. And wrong for initiating those conversations in the first place.), convicted on text conversation only. They’re still very wrong for doing all of that. But it falls into the territory of “future crime” if based solely on texts in my view. For the one’s that had those conversations and never showed up. The criminality comes in only to the degree that you arrested the person who showed up, moments before the crime. Yeah, bad. The intention is clear. Falls in the third group of criminal.
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Artists and doll owners. Using doll owners as a premise for warrantless searches. Surmising those people are out to harm children or in possession of material is extremely presumptive on their part. People making Ai based lolicon or drawings. Total “future crime”. Although with Ai we now get into the weeds of what was it trained on? These are the cases where we need some serious researchers and psychologists to step up! Showing that this group has no intentions of interacting with children at all.
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Actual criminals. People caught with CSAM, are criminals. People producing CSAM are criminals. 14yos sending nudie pics to each other are not producers of porn. Simply unguided and foolish free-range children. Molesters and rapists are criminals.
Yet all 3 of these groups of people are all labeled Cho-Moes in prison. Instead of the actual perpetrators. And once again, outrage and vigilante actions get them seriously hurt or killed.
Based on hearsay, embellishment of their crimes by anyone hearing about them and making assumptions, guards ratting them out knowing they’re likely to get killed. It’s like the game of telephone. Someone arrested for a fictional crime suddenly raped and murdered multiple children.
And it could be that person did nothing but find a few pictures online, or they were sent to them by the FBI because they were in the wrong chat rooms and were coerced into entrapment. Or the “crime” of owning a doll. Or creating a picture.
Now imagine your crime of an anime or lolicon drawing and now you’re facing prison yard death? Or because I have an imaginary, rubber, family? Or the person that only ever used their doll and never went near a real kid? This “future crime” and moral panic needs to stop! Let teenagers figure out who they are without burdening kids with teenage stuff at a young age too!
Since I try to stand for dolls (and anime and lolicon), or anything fictional that people enjoy in private, without harming anyone. Of course I won’t excuse a perpetrator that has ruined some young person’s life or murdered them. But stop throwing everyone into the same woodchipper!!