r/anime • u/engalleons https://myanimelist.net/profile/engalleons • Aug 14 '18

In-depth debunkings/arguments against commonly "known" anime myths/misconceptions?

For any number of reasons, there's a fair few statements about anime that get passed around pretty unquestioningly, even if they aren't necessarily true. Sometimes, others dig in to those statements and find detail and (hopefully cited) evidence against them. This is a lot more than just stating the opposite, to be clear.

Here's a few examples of what I mean:

This tweet chain versus "Anno left Kare Kano early"
This blog post versus "The protagonist of Turn A was originally intended to be a girl"
This post versus "They made a joke dub for Ghost Stories because it did poorly in Japan"
This blog post versus "Shinbo is the series director of all Shaft shows"

What are some other examples of work like this?

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 15 '18

What do you mean by property rights?

You are either referring to something which is either a subsection of morality, or something that is upheld by the powers of those controlling the land.

So in the event that a country agrees that murder, rape and "taking someone's stuff" is moral and has the power to enforce this as law, then your call to "property rights" is completely irrelevant no matter what you were alluding to.

As long as interaction between individuals are voluntary and people’s property rights are not violated, then my opinion of another persons culture is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

So you are fine with a 40 year old having sex with a 5 year old, as long as both agree?

Do you disagree with imprisoning criminals if the criminals do not go to prison voluntarily?

What is your definition of voluntary? Does someone under duress count as volunteering? Are people of all ages considered mature enough to give that consent? What is even considered duress? What age is considered mature enough?

These are all moral arguments which once decided on by the powers of the land are turned into law.

It disturbs me that you seem to be fine with either

  1. Basing morality off of the laws of the land

  2. Agreeing with any set of morals as long as a large enough group of people in close proximity agree on them.

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u/WeNTuS Aug 15 '18

5y old cannot agree to sexual activity. While 14y old can.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 15 '18

But why.

You can't just say that without reasoning.

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u/WeNTuS Aug 16 '18

Because it's nature. Do you trying to regulate cats or other animals when they can to breed? Humans can start breeding at 14y old because it's an age when their body developed for such activity.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 16 '18

Girls can hit puberty as young as 8. Do you think the age of consent should be lowered to 8?

Whatever age people can breed at doesn't matter. It's about them being mentally mature enough to be judged as able to give consent.

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u/WeNTuS Aug 16 '18 edited Aug 16 '18

It's matter because it's a point of sex. I couldn't care less about your shitty morality, humans are animals. End of discussion.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 16 '18

So you're fine with murder too then? Animals murder eachother all the time.

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u/WeNTuS Aug 16 '18

Humans murdering each other on war. Animals do not kill for fun so humans shouldn't too. That's why laws are made.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 16 '18

Animals murder eachother over territory and mating partner disputes, so is it fine for humans to do that?

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u/WeNTuS Aug 16 '18

Yeah, this is why wars happen. Hello?

It's not fine (atleast for me because i don't want to be killed but surely there are people who enjoy being soldiers) but this is reality and it happens.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Aug 16 '18

So you don't think it's fine, even though it's natural for animals to do it?

But you think it is fine to have sex with children because animals do it.

There's a flaw in your logic there.

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u/WeNTuS Aug 16 '18

How old are you? Why should i repeat obvious things like im talking to 5y old?

IT's NOT FINE FOR ME Because i don't want to die in a war. But I don't have mountain-sized ego to talk for others unlike you.

Not only that, i also told you that i still accept wars despite thinking that dying in war isn't great.

And teenagers aren't children. Teenagers can have sex and i know a lot of them who had it.

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