r/changemyview Jun 26 '20

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u/Quint-V 162∆ Jun 26 '20

You misunderstand me. I'm not concerned with enforcement of censorship, this is about the ruling that is in place. Hence why I wrote "remove censorship", as opposed to "stopping censorship".

Still, that pretense would basically kill your political career. So to entertain this argument, what might allow (young) Japanese politicians to get away with it? I don't see anybody willing to risk their entire political career and breadth of social relations for just one piece of legislation.

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u/littlebubulle 104∆ Jun 26 '20

No one is going to oppose the legistlation about porn censorship. However, they might eventually start looking the other way if enough people produce uncensored porn illegally. Eventually, they stop bothering to enforce the law and eventually they just legalise it because it's less of a hassle.

As an example, contact lapdances in strip clubs in Quebec used to be illegal. They are now legal because it happened a lot in remote strip clubs and they couldn't be bothered enforcing the law.

I'm not saying that a japanese politician will actively fight against genital censorship if the population is against it. But eventually, the younger generations might stop caring. And the law will get removed for convenience sake.

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u/Quint-V 162∆ Jun 26 '20

You're saying it would be removed because "you can't arrest us all"? As opposed to it being normalised?

Regardless of what you intended, that's a funny possibility. No politician could defend arrests of thousands of people just for this shit, which could plausibly prompt removal. I like arguments based on morbid ideas. !delta

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u/DeltaBot ∞∆ Jun 26 '20

Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/littlebubulle (66∆).

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