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Really? That's a stunning claim. You're comfortable making this judgement call that whisteblowers are more positive than child rape is negative?
by ethomson 12y ago
Really? That's a stunning claim. You're comfortable making this judgement call that whisteblowers are more positive than child rape is negative?
- sirsar 12y agoThere is a difference between viewing and creating pedophilic pornography. Certainly, demand drives creation, but one pageview is not one child raped. One whistleblower pageview is much more likely to be one whistle blown, which can have impact ranging from nothing to an arbitrary number of lives saved.
- chris_wot 12y agoWow. Just wow. You guys are seriously comparing the impact of whistleblowers to the impact of child rape?
- aaronem 12y agoWelcome to Hacker News!
- ethomson 12y agoI'm sympathetic to your suggestion that a whistle blow may have far reaching consequences. But as you suggest, it may not. It may have no impact at all. It may be wholly inconsequential. It may be a misunderstanding, a hoax. Meanwhile, a child was abused to make kiddy porn. No equivocation there. To suggest that the aforementioned whistleblower is always more positive than the kiddy porn is negative is shocking. To then try put a ratio on it seems particularly callous.
- paperplane 12y ago> Meanwhile, a child was abused to make kiddy porn. Drawn pictures (e.g. manga) are absolutely considered child porn in large parts of the world (e.g. the UK).
- sliverstorm 12y agoThe 1:1 comparison is, as your parent points out, ultimatly irrelevant because the reality is not 1:1. So I'm not worried about the 1:1 comparison.