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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 08:39 PM
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168. Why are you so hung up on technicalities that have so little...
...to do with what bothers the people who are bothered by the idea of jail time for imaginary creations, be they drawn, spoken, written, or played on a banjo for that matter?

Even on the technicality side of this, the OP says COMICS not CARTOONS. COMICS are typically a combination of BOTH pictures AND words. Constantly harping on the fact that the charges ultimately revolved around words rather than images is pointless. How many people reacting negatively to the incidents described in the OP, saying they think throwing someone in jail for looking at cartoons, is going to suddenly have a materially different reaction upon finding out that fictional and imaginary words were the damning legal issue, not fictional and imaginary drawings?

Words you say, not drawings? Well, that's different! I can't abide jail time for drawings, but obscene words!? Skin 'em alive and boil 'em in oil for that! :eyes:
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