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you are right, but child porn and addicts are already in the world. You fear addicts for good reasons. But if one looks how countries which legalized drugs ar
by killerpopiller 12y ago
you are right, but child porn and addicts are already in the world.
You fear addicts for good reasons.
But if one looks how countries which legalized drugs are doing, you will see that violence, crime and number of addicts are decreasing.
e.g. Portugal:
- Drug use among adolescents (13-15 yrs) and "problematic" users declined.[15]
- Drug-related criminal justice workloads decreased.[15]
- Decreased street value of most illicit drugs, some significantly
(although recreational (soft) drug use seemed to increase)
- superuser2 12y agoChild porn prohibition is not about consumers. It is about increasing the risk on (and taking the market away from) producers, who are necessarily actually abusing real children (who are not the producers themselves) in the real world in an unambiguously horrific way, with the end result that less child abuse happens. You will have to try pretty hard to spin that into being the same thing as drug prohibition. Arguments are, of course, less strong for convicting 16/17-year-olds of child porn for sexting, and even for removing images that were produced long ago.