Mike Christ
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February 09, 2014, 03:13:08 AM |
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Point is, so long as there is a crowd for pedophilia, there will be CP; the only way to stop this is to cure pedophilia, not attack those who look at it after the crime has occurred. The only effect of persecuting people who look at CP is an easy way to put anyone in jail if you can get the CP on their PC without their knowing; the fact that CP is still around on the dark web is enough to show us that the law is ineffective, reducing the belief that making the viewing of CP against the law will put our minds at ease that less pedophilia is occurring in the world to mere superstition, as the evidence, per usual of crime, shows us that the threat of punishment is a very ineffective way of curbing poor behavior. We have two options then: we assert that the state is run by stupid people, or face the notion that there is more than one intent.
It's important to understand about modern government that there are spoken intentions and unspoken intentions. If the spoken intention of restricting individual rights on the Interwebs to get rid of undesirable behavior is unsuccessful, and yet they proceed to do this despite the failure, then they are enacting the unspoken intention, whatever it may be; otherwise, after understanding that criminalizing the ownership of CP does not deter pedophiles or the creation of CP, the law would be lifted, and we would explore other means of solving the problem of there existing CP in a way hopefully not involving stonings.
Of course CP is bad, but let's not shoot ourselves in the foot; you do not cure a fever by attacking the symptoms, and you can't get rid of CP by banning the product following the crime. This is ineffective, and always has been: when alcohol was banned, the alcohol didn't go away, it was driven underground. Weed has been banned, and it didn't go away, it was driven underground. If weapons are banned, they don't go away, they go underground (look within any country where this has happened.) We all know this; you simply cannot ban homosexuality and expect the homosexuals to disappear. You get rid of these things through losing the reason why you have them in the first place, which means people no longer want to get drunk, or people no longer want to get high, or people no longer feel the need for weapons, or people no longer have interest in same sex marriages, or people no longer want relations with prepubescent children.
As I said, the effects of banning CP has not solved the problem of pedophilia, and only makes life worse for all of us, whether getting wrongfully tangled up with the courts over planted CP, or allowing it as an excuse for extended regulation over which sites we can visit or not. I don't fully understand the appeal of children, but I don't think we should look at pedophiles like the Nazis looked at the Jews; they're people and they know what they do is wrong (or, unfortunately for most people, rather than understanding it to be wrong, they know they'll get in trouble for it) and we would do better to understand the causes of pedophilia, how to ward our children away from potential predators, and help current pedophiles and potential pedophiles overcome their abnormal attraction. Child abuse is something I cannot forgive, having been abused myself (albeit not sexually), but the blame should rest solely on the abuser; in the same way, watching a video of a man executed by gang members does not make you an accomplice of murder, whether or not you enjoyed it, though I believe those who do should be honest so they can seek help; if viewing this type of material were banned, none would seek help in fear of prosecution, thereby helping the problem to continue.
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