And, how do you propose we fix this? Yes, child porn is wrong - but it’s legal in Japan. Yes, it’s not a good idea - but it’s socially acceptable in Japan.
The girls know exactly what they are doing, and knowing the female psyche, girls are socially competitive - which means that if one does it, the others will do it twice. If one girl makes %100/week the others will want to earn $200.
Do I want my grandkids doing this? Nope. But I also chose my battles, so I can use whatever influence I have to persuade my granddaughters and grandsons to not participate. But, beyond that I can do nothing.
If they ignore my advice, I can either alienate them and shun them - or I can be the person they can come to when they realize the error of their ways. I prefer the latter approach - but you are free to chose your own path.
The girls are thinking of money and the clothes they can buy. The men are thinking ... well, you know what they are thinking. This is not a new problem; it’s as old as mankind.
Elementary age children “know exactly what they are doing”??
Then what is school for if the kids are so smart and able to take care of themselves?
wow.
8 year olds “know exactly what they are doing”
just wow.
They are totally capable of taking care of themselves without parents and making all their own decisions
wow.
This is not a new problem; it’s as old as mankind.
Indeed, and seemingly the only thing that was able to change man and the direction he was taking, was war, pestilence, famine, disease, disaster of Godlike proportions, and other such events. Attempts at legislating morality are just that, attempts. A moral society, is always attacked by the immoralists carrying out the bidding of that being who tempted our first parents. The war of right vs wrong, the real war, based on truth vs deception, freedom and liberty vs the chains of captivity, making the right decision when faced with life’s daily choices.
How do we get there, and avoid the war pestilence, famine disease, and disaster. You start with Christianity, a Constitution, a Republic, and as Mr Jefferson stated, “if you can keep it”.
Further:,
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?”
Thomas Jefferson
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
Lastely, a quote from a speech by Calvin Coolidge on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence:
“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers”.
The Japanese won’t know the meeting is over until you drop the big one. Twice.