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  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

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    In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

    This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

    • friendofafriendofafriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The logic is that they don’t want to incentivise people to make more kiddie porn. If it’s legal and lucrative, more people would abuse children in order to make the videos. Kinda like outlawing ivory because elephants are endangered; that elephant is already dead, but if ivory remains profitable more will be killed.

    • friendofafriendofafriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The logic is that they don’t want to incentivise people to make more kiddie porn. If it’s legal and lucrative, more people would abuse children in order to make the videos. Kinda like outlawing ivory because elephants are endangered; that elephant is already dead, but if ivory remains profitable more will be killed.