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Originally Posted by jibber
Posessing child porn is making it easier for the makers to commit the crime. It puts money in their pockets, it gives them the resources to film children being raped and distribute it.
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This is bad how? You create a job market and strengthen the economy all without hurting someone. The people hurting the children should be punished, but the consumer and the market shouldn't be punished as they didn't actually do anything wrong. It'd be like penalizing someone because they laughed at a car wreck, or for downloading footage of someone being killed.
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You talk as if the pedophiles watching these tapes are watching actors, as if they are enjoying something that is sick and twisted but in reality, no one got hurt. Those kids aren't actors, and this is one of the very VERY few situations in life that is black and white.
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I agree they're not actors and that what is being done to them is very, very bad. To be honest it is probably one of the most disgusting examples of human depravity, and it churns my stomach just thinking about the sick bastards comitting such acts. However, I still stand by the idea that nobody should be punished for feeling enjoyment, or for owning something that brings said enjoyment as long as they themselves don't impede the rights and freedoms of others, and I'll be damned if watching a video in the privacy of my own home is damaging to anyone.
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However, Those kids would not be hurt if there wasn't a reason to do it. The people who buy those tapes are giving the men raping them a reason to do it.
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What if their reason isn't because its marketable, but rather the marketability is just an aside?
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We're not discussing the intricacies of guilt or harm in a legal textbook, we're discussing someone who is facilitating the rape of a child. It's wrong, it IS harmful though not by direct hand. Wheather directly or indirectly, people who make and people who WATCH child porn are all doing harm.
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And this seems to be the notion we're not agreeing on.