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The method of gratification is different from porn is different than to video games. I don’t have to get off to enjoy obliterating people back in the quake day
by adenozine 4y ago
The method of gratification is different from porn is different than to video games.
I don’t have to get off to enjoy obliterating people back in the quake days, but porn is a different psychological mechanism entirely.
I’m trying to assume you’re asking the question to spur conversation, and not that you actually hold the view that watching child porn, whether synthetic or not, is morally equivalent to playing video games.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoIs it? Are they not all dopamine pathways in the end, with addicts emerging from all of them? Where's the evidence against that? People spent decades arguing that rock & roll, Dungeons & Dragons and videogames would lead to moral corruption and decay. Turns out there is no evidence to support any of it in the end. The immorality was always "self-evident". That's not enough to justify banning something though as evidence has shown again and again. Also, whose morality are we talking about here? Morality is all over the map depending on which culture you ask. Each cares more or less about sanctity, divinity, loyalty, freedom etc. And you're correct, my personal opinion on this is irrelevant.
- idiotsecant 4y ago>I’m trying to assume you’re asking the question to spur conversation, and not that you actually hold the view that watching child porn, whether synthetic or not, is morally equivalent to playing video games. I think you're less trying to assume this, and more trying to cast aspersions without breaking HN rules. Barely.