Porn and anime are two different things. Sometimes they overlap, but not always. You are assuming this story was about the most hardcore of anime. Libraries are supposed to display books about a wide variety of interests and viewpoints. Refusing to carry one because some don’t like it is a bad trend to start. Many don’t like books on the fair tax, “more guns, less crime”, or “the bell curve.” That doesn’t mean they should be removed any more than liberal books should if a conservative doesn’t like them.
Freedom comes with a price. Sometimes that price is knowing there’s offensive material somewhere and choosing not to take that book out or look at it. I’m all for special sections for certain classification of books. I’m not for banning entire classifications at the behest of a few citizens.
The fact you equate an economic subject with porn is the entire problem right there.
The fact is porn/nudity is regulated by the government already (gasp!). Specifically to shield minors from it.
It’s a total double standard. One governmental body keeps it off over-the-air tv, another wants to buy it and stock it in our libraries. Total inconsistency. Can’t let junior tune in for free but if he happens to find it in the library well we can’t censor the library.
We have decency standards in communities, we have decency standards that affect what’s on tv. Society at large sets that, not only a select few that work for the library that aren’t accountable to the voters. Try and talk with the high-up people that RUN the library, they are the most close-minded, don’t question what I’m doing kind of people you’ll ever meet. Often appointed by mayors and such, so totally unaccountable to folks in the community. Used to be they did care, now they don’t.
It also comes with a responsibility not to degrade society into an immoral morass. Our Constitution was meant for a moral society, not a depraved one. I can give you quotes from Adams and Washington if you like.
That they're so merrily willing to accept the word of a virtually illiterate, ostensibly "reformed" junkie -- one who had eight of her ten children taken away from her by the authorities (abuse?) (neglect?), no less -- is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Good grief.