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| Aielyn said: 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. |
Except her tweets is also in regard to real life child porn which blows the first paragraph away.
Laws are about keeping order and justice, if you abuse someone or contribute to it then you deserve to received an adequate punishment no ifs or buts, it is established early on by society in someone's life that abuse of children is wrong and illegal, if a person keeps it in their head then fine but if they start getting involved in it in any manner whether directly or indirectly like downloading child porn you deserve to be dealt with. By having child porn a person is supporting an predatory industry which in turn goes on to pull in more victims, this isn't no politically open non-sense like you're trying to push it's straight up wrong and illegal, this is why both the producer and those he's catering to deserve strong action against them.
