Your View on Child Porn

[Jin]

No, I think child porn is great.

Well maybe not, but this thread is boring as sin, so I'm going to play devil's advocate.

First and foremost:

What may not be realised is that peadophia is a mental illness as much as Bi-polar or Altsimers, and people sticken by this morally corrupting degenerative illness are actually wrongly labelled as wirdo's or freaks they are just one or two chromosones away from you or me.

Just like homosexuality is a disease, right? Come on, don't be daft.

There is nothing worse in this world to me then a petifile.

Really? The Holocaust? The Armenian genocide? The Rape of Nanjing? The Ukrainian famine in the 30s? The Great Leap Forward? The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? Superman 64? None of these things are worse to you than some nobody harmlessly jerking off to some picture of a kid in swim trunks?

Let's begin with the old Confucian standard, the rectification of names, because you people are all confused. A pedophile is not someone that molests children. A pedophile is not someone that possess child porn. All a pedophile is is someone that is sexually attracted to children, which is a relative thing to begin with. Moving on.

"It's morally reprehensible" isn't an argument. Granted, you probably weren't intending to pass it off as one, but for argument's sake, let's try to be objective. Saying that child porn allows people to take advantage of minors is also in illegitimate argument as the same can be said about "adult porn". The only legitimate argument is that minors are not developed enough to make these decisions for themselves. The cut off point is, of course, an arbitrary number that differs from place to place and time to time. So how then do we determine whether someone is mature enough (whatever that means) to be involved in pornography? We don't subject anyone to an examination. Instead it's left up to a chronological "milestone" that is supposedly, on average, an indicator of a person's maturity.

Hypothetical situation. A bright young 8 year old likes to be optically admired. This kid completely understands the situation that he or she is involved in and actually gets pleasure (I can only assume non-sexual, but who knows) from being in porn. Is this then wrong? I would say no as I'm fairly libertarian, but on the other hand, I completely acknowledge that it is impossible to keep track of which kids understand the situation and which don't and the fairly irrelevant freedoms that would result would be completely overshadowed by the far more dangerous other side of the coin. Nonetheless, it's something to think about, if you can get past your moral restraints.

In the end, I'm not advocating the legalization of child porn (although upper teens present a gray area). However, I find it morally reprehensible that pedophiles are treated with such contempt. For someone to simply be attracted to a child does not make him or her a bad person, nor does it mean that he or she will attempt to molest said child. Furthermore, although the possession of child porn is often suspect, it still does not make someone the foul creaton that everyone loves to depict so melodramatically. Child porn is not necessarily the product of coercion or manipulation, especially when talking about the buyer. I wouldn't be arrested for looking at naked paparazzi pictures of some celebrity that were taken illegally, it's silly to arrest someone for mere possession of child porn as well. If they have a hand in producing it or are proven to be a molester, fine, arrest them. If not, it's just some nobody trying to cope with his socially unacceptable fetish without resorting to molestation or rape. Masturbation is a good thing.

Alright, come on then. Have at me. My rep awaits.