@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:Isn't the protection of children more important that the perverted desires of paedophiles?
Protection from fotografy??
Lemme refer back to my (theoretical) example of my freedom to choose,
when I was a kid, to sell pictures of myself making love,
for my personal profit. It seems to me that in a free country
no one shud interfere with my private business, but under the extant statute,
I 'd be in severe danger from my
OWN government.
Perhaps more to the point:
we have many teenagers of both genders
who have sent pictures of themselves (taken by the cameras
in their fones) to their friends. How many years in prison
shud be inflicted upon them??? Shud thay be excluded
from getting professional licenses in the future
because of conviction of felony ???
As I understand the extant federal law,
if children go
skinny dipping together, or choose to
"play doctor"
that is perfectly legal, but if any of them takes a picture thereof,
then that is good for a few decades in prison.
( My memory is unclear qua length of applicable sentence. )
If there is a question of
CRIMINAL VIOLENCE against any citizen
of any age that shud be addressed by counter-violence by government.
I think that your question calls forth an examination
of what power we wish to grant to government
and what power has already been granted to it.
The result shud be a
dispassionate good faith analysis.
Will u agree with that ?
David
