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> If your neighbor to the left of you has videos of naked children, and your neighbor to the right has videos of people getting stabbed and tortured to death, o
by dt3ft 5y ago
> If your neighbor to the left of you has videos of naked children, and your neighbor to the right has videos of people getting stabbed and tortured to death, only one should be arrested and put on a list?
Why is it like this? Why are we not jailing people who enjoy watching gore?
- unethical_ban 5y agoMy only initial guess is that the financial incentives are not the same. The "problem" of people getting murdered or non-consensually tortured specifically for entertainment and distribution is much lower than the problem of the economics of child sex abuse.
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- mzsmyk 5y agoFor the same reason why rape is a taboo in American movies and murder is not - US still is a deeply Puritan country [1][2][3]. [1]http://www.princeton.edu/~sociolog/pdf/asmith1.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~sociolog/pdf/asmith1.pdf [2]https://davetannenbaum.github.io/documents/Implicit%20Puritanism.pdf https://davetannenbaum.github.io/documents/Implicit%20Purita... [3]https://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/478/832/RUG01-002478832_2018_0001_AC.pdf https://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/478/832/RUG01-0024788...