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I don't think there's an immediate victim with this, but I wonder at whether or not easy access to this sort of content would increase the risk of real world of
by yarg 3y ago
I don't think there's an immediate victim with this, but I wonder at whether or not easy access to this sort of content would increase the risk of real world offending.
- c1sc0 3y agoOr decrease? Does access to “regular” porn increase or decrease real world abuse? I’d say giving a harmless outlet for desires is probably a net positive.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoI think that’s a good question. I see it as also possible it would reduce real-world offending. Today, seeking out images like that puts you on the definite wrong side of a line. A child was harmed to produce that image. You’ll face significant legal and societal consequences if you get caught with it in your possession. Given that you’ve already crossed the line, maybe the next line is not as hard to cross. Whereas if images like these are decriminalised, folks who look at them don’t have to directly correlate their actions with any specific harm to any specific child, and so that line remains uncrossed. I think there may be complications around, for example, using inpainting on an image of a specific child, but overall, my approach is more one of harm reduction. Whichever approach leads to fewer real world children being abused is the one to take, and moral outrage should take a back seat to pragmatism if it turns out that decriminalising these images reduces real world offending. Not sure there’s a good way to test and find out which of us is right though.
- yarg 3y agoEither seems possible to me, and I think it probably depends on the nature of the pornography, and the levels of agency allowed for the consumer (see also, methadone programs). I worry that left to their own devices, some may slip deeper into the psychosexual sadism side of things.