Originally Posted by
john67
The only way it could be legalised is if there was HARD EVIDENCE that allowing these people to watch child porn would reduce the chance of them trying to do things with actual children. Then it would be acceptable, but since that evidence doesn't exist, nope. Ultimately the top priority should be protecting children.
If anything there's more evidence that the more you watch things like that the more likely you are to try and take it a step further. Therefore we are protecting children by arresting people who watch things like this. It really is that simple. In a parallel universe where child porn keeps the pedofiles sated and stops them offending then sure, legalise CGI child porn and whatever. But not in this universe, because it won't work.
There are a lot of things wrong with how we approach the problem of pedophilia and such in the world today. But giving them child porn and saying "have fun!" is NOT the answer. It won't protect children, quite the opposite in fact. We should be focused on protecting children, not on just taking the lazy option and saying "screw this, let's just let them do what they want until they hurt a child". What we need to do is encourage pedofiles to get help immediately rather than treating them like monsters. But that also means we need to reinforce the point that viewing child porn is wrong.
Get real here. Playing a violent video game is not the same as masturbating to child porn. When you start masturbating to killing prostitutes in GTA then yes, I would say you DO have a problem. The act of masturbating to something only makes you find that thing more arousing. What do you think happens when a person continually does that? It's the same with pretty much any fetish or whatever, except every other fetish is consensual so I don't really care what they do with their partner in the privacy of their own home.