Sure it is. A lot of people would agree that viewing drawings or AI generated CP is a victimless crime.
Or for another example, two under-18s taking nude pics and sending them to each other. Technically illegal, but morally? Probably not bad.
But just to speak to what you said, if they are non-offending, are you talking about the ones that dont physically assault children? Because the ones who are viewing and distributing csam are still harming children. Maybe not directly, but its like supply and demand, isn’t it? People make it if people want it.
I intentionally left that vague because of the nuance you mentioned. I think most people agree that physical assault of a child is heinous. Consumption of CP is more of a difficult gray area.
People don’t choose to be pedophiles. We shouldn’t hate them just for existing.
People choose to abuse children, and that should be strongly punished and I think the majority agrees with me on that.
But a non-offending pedophile is someone with a disability and should be treated as such.
Are there any places in Thailand that aren’t hot and humid? It’s a decent retirement option but I can’t stand that kind of weather.
We’re reading different books. Mine is called Equality.
their children’s lives are still left uncertain
Fuck em. A lot of children’s lives are uncertain.
It is only a fact that you feel xyz. It does not remotely mean that xyz is true.
Specifically five people.
No, I will not elaborate.
some particularly stupid people treat economic systems as moral systems
ie spreading/stopping communism is a moral good.
And we have absolutely no data to suggest that’s happening. It’s purely hypothetical.
They’re being so caustic because they get a sick power rush from trying unleash a mob on someone. That’s all. They probably don’t give a shit about children.
Ok, but by that definition Google should be banned because their trawler isn’t guaranteed to not pick up CP.
In my opinion, if the technology involves casting a huge net, and then creating an abstracted product from what is caught in the net, with no steps in between seen by a human, then is it really causing any sort of actual harm?
Way to not answer the question.
It would probably make me distrust the prosecution, like if they’re bringing this up they must not have much to go on. Like every time a black man is shot by police they bring up that he smoked weed.
I guess my main complaint is that it’s insane to view it as equivalent to real CP, and it’s harmful to waste any resources prosecuting it.
This sounds like you’re searching really hard for a reason to justify banning it. Pretty tenuous “what if” there.
Like, a dildo could hypothetically be used to sexualize a child. Should we ban dildos?
It’s so vague it could apply to anything.
No one is out here making stupid-ass claims around child marriage.
Why are YOU so passionate about AI porn? Why do you people make this an issue at all when there are real actual kids out there being harmed?
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With a set of all images on the internet. Why do you people always think this is a “gotcha”?
I’m offended by stupid-ass shit and feel compelled to call it out. Thinking AI-generated fake images is just as harmful as actual children getting abused is perhaps the most obvious definition of “stupid-ass shit” since the invention of stupid-ass shit.
Is there research showing that? My impression was that short of chemical castration it’s almost impossible to remove.