Freedom?

Freedom has always been a subject of much debate all around the world and is enforced or restricted on many different levels depending on your location, race, gender etc.. The main reason for this being a touchy subject is because it's all based on someones moral values. For instance to a murderer, pedophile etc... most likely sees nothing wrong in his actions and to him it is morally right, but we as a people decided that those actions were morally wrong and restricted a persons freedom just a hair to prevent those awful situations from occurring more often. In Japan (and everywhere else) we see lesser cases of this same issue.

If we look at the situation with protesters outside a movie theater we see people exercising their freedom of speech and protest, but there exists a fine line. If they were to get violent or not allow people to enter the theater then they begin to limit other people's freedom to watch what they want making them hypocrites. In the end, however, protesters and movie goers are merely the two sides of the moral debate on whether or not the movie in question is morally sound and should or should not be made accessible to the public.

The main problem I see with the protesters in Japan (that I've seen) is that they tend to not be reasonable. What I mean is that they are unwilling to calmly sit down and argue the points for why it shouldn't be viewed in Japan. I'm not saying they don't give reasons but when they do they seem to bee flimsy at best and are too stubborn to listen to people with opposing viewpoints. In the end what I think you should take away from all of this is that everyone has to decide for themselves what is morally acceptable and in the end if you find that you believe something like a movie to be unacceptable then, and here's the main point, don't watch it. You have all the freedom you need to not see something you don't want to see but that doesn't give you the right to suddenly become the moral judge for others.