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> People record child pornography for posterity without distributing it. Doesn't matter, this material leaks out into the world and becomes part of sharing net
by vinceguidry 10y ago
> People record child pornography for posterity without distributing it.
Doesn't matter, this material leaks out into the world and becomes part of sharing networks. In these networks, paedophiles can live and participate in a world in which these thoughts and this behavior is OK. With social validation eventually comes boldness and the willingness and desire to create ones own content.
Do you have a hobby? I like food. I like talking about food, cooking food, I take pleasure in being able to discern subtle flavorings in dishes and having an appreciation for real Chinese food as opposed to bland American Chinese shit.
All of that time and effort I put into food, there are vast numbers of paedophiles that do this for videos of children being abused. Without the moral stigma, these people will get bolder and bolder, and before you know it, there's a paedophile political lobby just like the gun and homosexual rights lobby.
Is this a world you want to live in? Countenanced with this, is disgust as a source for the political capital to fight paedophilia really such a bad thing? Do you really want to grant legitimacy to that way of life? Because that's where your line of thought goes.
Yes, it's awful that if you are wired that way, you're pretty much fucked and that's terrible and I feel bad for you. But it's really, really morally fucked up and repugnant and wrong to allow yourself the inner freedom to explore your sexuality on these networks if that's the case. You deserve to be locked up and shamed if you give in to your urges.
There's no easy way through this.
- Programmatic 10y agoI do agree that there's no easy way thought this, and it sounds like we'll likely have irreconcilable viewpoints. I hope that you will at least seek to ensure that the constitutional rights everyone are upheld, even for people that you find repugnant. If we don't uphold fundamental rights for the worst of us, the powers that be can use that as the thin edge of the wedge to remove those rights for the rest of us. It was enjoyable to converse with you, have a good one.
- vinceguidry 10y agoYes, I do believe in constitutional rights for everyone. If I have led you to believe otherwise, please tell me which constitutional rights I am implying should be withheld from which group of people. If it's freedom of speech for paedophiles, then I believe the Supreme Court has set clear precedent that the ban on child pornography is an allowable restriction on speech, correct me if I'm wrong.