I think censorship is dumb and pointless for the most part.

That's about the only thing I prefer being censored... Kids should not be sexualized even if it's just a video game.

Really, everyone knows deep down why we like erotic portrayals of people in games and art, so there's somethg inherently wrong in portraying minors in such a way as there's really only the one reason to do it.

I suppose there's something of a cultural divide here, though, in that girls in their early to mid teens have long been sexualized in Japanese art/anime etc... I still remember being surprised by the unedited original Dragonball series with how they treated the child version of Bulma. Of course, people often incorrectly conflate this with pedophilia when technically it's called "ephebophilia" (attraction to 15-19 year olds) which is not considered a mental illness, but they do often seem to go younger than 15 at times in their animes.

This is, of course, not exclusively a Japanese thing, historically speaking. The Greeks (and to a lesser extent the later romans) very much idolized the young male (~11-18) body as is quite evident in their art and sculpture, so it can certainly just be a cultural thing. That said, it still strikes me as wrong to portray these kids in that fashion, and it is especially egregious when they simply claim they're "15" or older but draw them with the appearance of a ten year old. That's one loophole that certainly needs closing.

I am 100% against the sexualization of children, fictuonal or real, in any way whatsoever. If you're not, I question your ethics.

Can you speak the same with your neigborhood or family and friend when there children wearing a swimsuit?

Why everything need to be a consoles wars.

video games aren't real so no, I wouldn't.

On first impression I had no idea how to respond to this thread, or rather I really didn't feel like it. But after reading a bit of the thread that inspired this one I got to thinking.
How is something like age itself depicted?

Because I share the same sentiment as the one I posted there, cultural differences are weird...but they are different for a reason, because people are.

I'm not bragging or anything, but my university is pretty cosmopolitan, its top tier so we get people from around the world. So walking around campus I've often mistaken people ages by how they look. People I swear were children, might be my age are older, and many underage freshman might look like Juniors.

Fundamentally, this is why it is legitimate for authors to say something like "oh, she looks like that but she is 18." because its entirely plausible.

In fact, worse still, even if you could fault someone on looks alone, the very fact that looks don't directly correlate with age, that is perceived age and actual age can be quite different, means that the distinction isn't reliable. Their is no way to argue against the former claim. I mean you could, and I guess its a measure of judgement, but at that point its really just preferential.

Thusly, I wouldn't censor it. It's not my responsibility.

This is a bad example. A very bad example. 

For starters, that looks either a midget or an doll. As a matter of fact, in this scene, she's a midget pretending to be a doll. No one is is going to be cross-eyed and in such a stiff position under any normal circumstance, and even in bizzare circumstances.

Also Moe Sizlack can be a lot of things. But people know he's not a pedophile.

"It comes down to context"... You're literally taking this picture out of context. 

No because a child is not going to see an episode, where Moe Sizlack is panicking becuase he thinks his date is replaced with a doll, only for a second later the date to say she was pretending to be a doll, startle Moe, and still be panicked, and then pan to commericial. That's due to the fact that, in context, That's whats's going to happen in the span of about 5-15 seconds. The child will not just see one still frame of an animated episode with sound somehow not on and think that, and somehow, just somehow the child magically did, anyone reviewing the episode to verify whether it was the case or not... would not. Mainly due to the fact that in context, which  again, you have taken this out of, no one would see a problem with Moe dating a midget. Except Moe, and that is within the context of her being a midget.

Drawings aren't people. I fully support sexualized drawings of minors, especially if it is a release for ephebophiles, hebephiles, pedophiles, etc.