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# He thinks he's people.
the mere fact that they were not realistic representations of human beings did not mean that they could not be considered people.
You heard it here first. Australian Supreme Court judge deems that, amongst other things:
- Monkeys are people
- Your L70, Tier 7.25 bedecked Human Pally is a person and that Cow Shaman who ganked you last week should be charged with murder.
- So should the handful of borderline sociopaths that I personally know that have trapped a Sim inside a pool or a room with no doors. Murderers!
- The sundry Barbie and Brats dolls I have – in fits of juvenile behaviour – arranged into lewd poses should have me charged with sexual abuse because, damn it, they are people too!
- Oh, and amateurishly drawn Simpsons’s characters depicted engaging in sex acts is child pornography, because Bart & Lisa & Maggie are people.
I wouldn’t – as the saying goes – piss on this Alan John McEwan guy if he was on fire but there is no crime here. No child was abused and arguing that it will “fuel demand for material that does involve the abuse of children” is a first step down a very short path into absurdity.
I’m going to be very interested in what the social conservative whack-jobs have to say to this one. On the one hand they are only a couple of outrages away from being readily parodied as believing ‘bathing your own child == child pornography’. On the other they love to depict all animal rights activists as believing your dog should be given citizenship. I suppose they’ll just be intellectually dishonest and pretend the judge didn’t say the line I quoted.
