OCCOM BILL wrote:You told me where your child porn images are viewed; forums.
I told you nothing of the sort. I don't look at child porn.
Quote:This is a forum. When you open a page that has pictures on it; some of those pictures are going to be click throughs to a monetized site. You now know this.
But whose monetized site? Will the people who make the child porn profit, or will some internet company profit? This is what I'm unsure about.
Quote:But you are now back tracking into a position that you don't create a substantial amount of money by looking, rather than denying that your looking creates money. This is a step in the right direction...
I'm not ready to concede that the monetized clicks benefit the child abusers, rather than some neutral third party. I need more information before I commit myself to saying that looking creates an unsubstantial amount of profit for child abusers, rather than no amount at all.
Quote:It is also an admission of guilt. The simple fact of the matter is; money provides motive for abusing children and your actions provide some of that money.
What actions?
Quote:Your level of guilt can now only be argued from a percentage of harm done by you, which is exceedingly weak any way you slice it.
How would you know that? Do you think it's fun to be chronically sexually frustrated?
Quote:Whether it takes 1, 10, 100, or 1,000 like-clicking perverts like yourself to result in sufficient motivation to abuse a child; you are nonetheless a contributing factor.
If I looked at child porn - which I don't - it might be possible that I would make a small contribution to the harm done to children. But it would be like dropping a piece of litter. It would be bad, but it wouldn't be bad enough for me to deserve the kind of treatment I could expect from mainstream society. Certainly not bad enough to warrant a prison sentence.
Quote:You're an intelligent man. Stop dancing and admit there's a problem. Only then can you work on doing your part to correct it.
It isn't a black and white issue. I've altered my position to the extent that I can only conceive of a limited number of situations in which the viewing of free child porn could be entirely harmless. I still maintain that the act will rarely be harmful enough to warrant the sort of punishment it gets.
If a paedophile deserves to go to prison for looking at some pictures in a forum, then parents deserve to go to prison for not giving their children enough vegetables. I concede that looking at child porn
might be bad. But it is nothing like actually administering torture to a child for your own profit or pleasure. It doesn't come close.