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In my opinion, downloading and looking at pictures of naked children shouldn't be a crime. Making child porn also shouldn't be a crime unless it falls under chi
by cousin_it 17y ago
In my opinion, downloading and looking at pictures of naked children shouldn't be a crime. Making child porn also shouldn't be a crime unless it falls under child abuse laws. For example, animated or CGI child porn should be legal because its production and consumption harms no one. (Currently it's illegal and people have gone to jail for it.) We stopped imprisoning and castrating homosexuals sometime ago, but apparently people can't internalize the too-abstract ideas of "victimless crime" and "private business". See that guy? He's a wacko, I tell you. He loves watching movies where people kill other people with guns! One day he'll get a gun and attack our kids, our precious little darlings.
And about that hacker from the article, I wonder if his system can be used to catch copyright infringers? People who download offensive texts? People who visit blacklisted sites, where the blacklist depends on the country? Human inventions are beautiful that way - you never know how other people will repurpose them. I hear the guy who invented dynamite didn't intend it to be used for killing, either.
- ErrantX 17y ago> Currently it's illegal and people have gone to jail for it Actually it's something of a legal grey area in most places. If that's all your caught with then you could well just get a slap on the wrists - but that's rarely the case. I see where your coming from with the arguments; but it's, sadly, not in any way a victimless crime.