DrewDad wrote:agrote wrote: the morality of admiring that which results from a terrible event.
The morality of
admiring something would strongly depend on the morality of that which you are
admiring.
Not if morality is only about actions, as I think it is. A natural disaster is not an action, and nor is an item of child pornography. There is no such thing as "the morality of that which you are admiring" in these cases.
So here are my questions again:
It is okay for us to admire what results from the terrible event of a natural disaster. We can admire the ruins of Pompeii without being glad that so many people suffered in the process of their creation.
Why is it wrong to admire what results from the terrible event of filmed child abuse? Why can't we admire photographs of sex with children without being glad that children suffered in the process of their creation?
Child abuse and natural disaster are obviously different. But which of their differences makes it the case that we can admire what results from the former, but we can't admire what results from the latter?