| Wyrdness said: Sorry that's BS mate, child abuse is far more severe than drug use go look at the impact it has on victims for the rest of their lives, any suggestion to lighten laws on punishment is advocating pedophilia end of as children must never suffer such horrific events. This is predatory behaviour that needs to be stamped out so yes the possession of such content should be treated in the same manner, both those creating the content and those creating demand for it should be equally punished. If she had a child who got abused and someone took pleasure watching the abuse I wonder if she'd even carry such a view. |
I'm sorry, but that's highly reductive, black-and-white thinking, on a complex topic. Alison wasn't defending the watching of child porn. Her thesis was on the topic of *drawn* child porn - images of fictional children drawn with pen and paper, or by computer. No child was in any way harmed by such images.
Law shouldn't be about revenge. It shouldn't be about punishing people because it'll make the victim or their family feel better. And it most certainly shouldn't be about punishing something for being outside of the mainstream. It should be dealing with real problems, like actual child sexual abuse, not demonisation of those who have an unusual sexual proclivity and seek out ways to satisfy that proclivity without actively doing anything to any children.
If you can't comprehend these concepts, then I'm glad you're not a politician - we have enough politicians who are incapable of understanding nuance as it is.
EDIT: But I do like the part where you suggested that child sexual abuse is worse than drug use, and therefore the reasoning regarding how to deal with the problem should be completely different even though there's a direct analogy between the two cases. Indeed, if anything, the fact that the real concern with child porn is at the producer end should give you MORE reason to want to deal with it by going after the makers, whereas drug use is more about the impact on the end user and those around the end user.
