Thanks to ol’ muskrat and his recent lobbying to make it legal for his pet clanker to turn real images of underage women into deepfakes, most people are VERY aware that something doesn’t have to have a physical impact to cause harm.

Yeah, but in that case there is still a real, verifiable harm: they’re damaging the reputation of one or more people, and they’re enabling abusers and stalkets to harass people like never before, causing these victims huge trauma, and the worst part: they’re trained with real children pictures.

An anime drawing almost never represents a real child, and what’s more, they’re just fucking obviously fictional and unmistakably unreal; someone as Shadman that draws real people in a cartoon-ish way is gross? Yeah, but as long as they’re harassing real people in the process.

Moreover, a drawing or a fictional being hasn’t even an age, because they’re just that, fictional beings, they don’t have any real biologic story or an inner world or a mind or any kind of psychologic or mental state, they’re just lines or pixels on a canvas, and their only age, if anything, is the time passed since they were first drawn. There’s just a big of an ontological gap between them and the real world that the harm never is in themselves or their nature or contents, but on the intentions and actions of their creators.

It is not far of a stretch to say that the people drawing that type of thing enjoy it, as do the people consuming it.

Yeah, they do enjoy it. But they don’t enjoy actual CSAM (or, that is, real childrens being abused, because no, lolicon IS not CSAM as there is not simply a real victim).

So why are you defending it so vehemently?

You’ve posted multiple times in this thread arguing with whoever you can find, so I’m curious; what do you think you’re defending?

Because I’m a Free Speech Extremist, and an art-autonomist. That’s it. Period. Recommended lecture if you’re so genuinely curious about that.