I just re-read my comment and realized I typoed away some words. orz
I meant to say: "stumbling into (lolicon, etc.) and even starting to draw and write (lolicon, etc.) themselves, because (or at least encouraged by the other works) they start to see it as normal."
I agree about how it feels different and normal when you're young vs old, but yeah, that part at the end of your comment was what I was trying to get at: that they start seeing an idea repeated so much that, even if, intellectually, they know that it is wrong, it starts registering in the back of their minds as "it's okay, it's harmless (because it's fiction)", and at that age, while you probably have a good grasp on good vs evil, safety vs danger, etc., more abstract long-term (not time - long term, but chain of people and circumstances - long term) causes vs consequences is something that you're still building in your "map" of how the world works, and not necessarily in a conscious way, and, from my own experience and from what I've seen of my peers at the time and from younger people now that I'm old, sometimes it's up to the luck of what places and texts/explanations you stumble into how you start organizing all that in your mind, so you might come away with the seeds of bad conclusions.
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I just re-read my comment and realized I typoed away some words. orz
I meant to say: "stumbling into (lolicon, etc.) and even starting to draw and write (lolicon, etc.) themselves, because (or at least encouraged by the other works) they start to see it as normal."
I agree about how it feels different and normal when you're young vs old, but yeah, that part at the end of your comment was what I was trying to get at: that they start seeing an idea repeated so much that, even if, intellectually, they know that it is wrong, it starts registering in the back of their minds as "it's okay, it's harmless (because it's fiction)", and at that age, while you probably have a good grasp on good vs evil, safety vs danger, etc., more abstract long-term (not time - long term, but chain of people and circumstances - long term) causes vs consequences is something that you're still building in your "map" of how the world works, and not necessarily in a conscious way, and, from my own experience and from what I've seen of my peers at the time and from younger people now that I'm old, sometimes it's up to the luck of what places and texts/explanations you stumble into how you start organizing all that in your mind, so you might come away with the seeds of bad conclusions.