>>21202461Anon, I'll try highlighting this a lot more clearly and more honestly.
Let's think up of a situation. We'll also being using the DSM-5's definition of Pedophilia and Anti-Social Personality Disorder. So, there isn't any mental gymnastics nor gaslighting. Just a fully realized examination.
About 15-20 years ago, Gamers were accused as being dangers to society. Not necessarily criminal behavior in itself, but they believed that such games would facilitate the ideas fostered in their media into the real world. Essentially, Normalfag media was stating that the people who played these violent games had Anti-Social Personality Disorder. That because they were playing games about "representations of people" or "hyper realistic murder sims", that they would have a general disregard of life towards humans. However, we found out just putting an assumption onto a foreign group that is unfamiliar to normalfag culture proved them wrong. As it turned out, Gamers didn't look at these characters waiting to be killed as "Humans". Instead, they saw them as "NPCs". No, I don't just mean, "Fiction does not equal reality. What I'm trying to say is that these characters with realistic graphics, limited behavior patterns, and bunches of code weren't just, "not real". They were entirely separate from what Gamers saw NPCs as. Simply calling them "not real" is the best we have for our language. We they explicitly said, "The characters aren't actually representations of people.", couldn't be anymore truthful. NPCs are such a different idea from what a human person means to a players that they have entirely separate behavior patters to them. It's this reason why Gamers are so ok with fucking with them so much. They're ok with putting them in situations that would be horrible in real life because it's simply "ok" to do it to NPCs, but not humans. For a Violent Video Game player, They are not Disregarding the life of people, but the lives of NPCs. It's that reason alone it's not correct to believe that a gamer would want to shoot someone if given a gun. Such behavior was never supported to begin with. I believe in the idea that fiction can reinforce beliefs. However, when it comes to this, 0x10 will always still be 0.
It's the same thing with lolicons. Most lolicons simply do not think they represent children. They think lolis are in fact lolis. So, their attraction to children are non-existent. They were never into loli for children. 0x10 will always be 0.
There is something I want to note, however. In truth, NPCs, lolis, or whatever the fuck is what (You) want it to mean. If you believe Lolis represent children, go for it. There are some pedo-lolicons who are simply just in it for the idea of children. There's nothing wrong with that, but this would be one of those cases where lolicon facilitates their love of children (hence 12x12 will be 144 rating on the pedo scale). I'd like it if you didn't impose your pedophilic tendencies on others. I am not in this simply for "children". There are many concepts that surround lolis that have nothing to do with children and it's entirely abstract, like "contrast.".
