Sounds reasonable at 1st glance. But is no different than thought police. Say that a person has an immense crush on some celebrity, fantasizes about doing <uns

Sounds reasonable at 1st glance. But is no different than thought police. Say that a person has an immense crush on some celebrity, fantasizes about doing <unspeakable things> to said celeb, but never acts on it. Would that deserve punishment? Imho, not. And CP material is essentially no different. Now as for people actually abusing children, or doing so to produce such material: go ahead & do <unspeakable things> to them. A -much- stronger argument is when someone is preparing to commit crimes: buying supplies, terrorists making bombs, someone preparing a basement as a prison cell for yet-to-be-grabbed victim, etc. Or when sharing fake images cause actual harm to those depicted. Yeah the 'sliding slope' argument counts. But so does the distinction between fantasizing about X, vs. actually doing it.