AGAIN! It being unpopular or offensive to a majority is NOT a justified reason for criminal action! What is it about that which do you NOT understand?? That’s the mindset which made up the backbone of Jim Crow laws, anti-gay laws, and other cruel civil rights injustices that have plagued us. “We don’t like it” is not compatible with due process, nor is it compatible with reason, or even the philosophy which makes up the bedrock of Western civilization. Censorship and thought-crime are antithetical to those core ideals and your refusal to reconcile that fact is both disgusting and horrifying, moreso than the subject matter in question.
It IS a victimless crime and normalization is NOT a real concept, nor could it be used to justify censorship or prohibition.
Even if the “normalization” argument had merit, the likelihood that the availability of these dolls would have any effect on society’s views towards children and their rights is minimal. The average human can tell the difference between a piece of plastic and a human being, just like they can tell the difference between reality and fiction. Other kinds of media, even pornography, are easily accessible and viewed by much of the majority and the alleged effects of which have NOT been evident. There are studies which even clarified that pornography in and of itself is harmless, so long as nobody was abused or exploited in order to make it, and that the availability of such material may in fact LOWER the commission rates of sex crimes, which we’ve seen happen in countries like Japan, Denmark, and the Czech Republic, and even in the United States! So don’t tell me that these dolls are in any shape or form harmful.
Sources:
Sex crime statistics in Japan (US Dept. of Justice archives)
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=179581
Sex crimes overall