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UK Proposes Banning Computer Generated Abuse
peterprior writes "The UK Justice Minister is planning to outlaw computer generated images and drawings of child sex abuse. While photographs and videos of child sex abuse are already illegal, undoubtedly to protect children from being exploited by these acts, what children will be protected by this new law? If there is no actual child involved is the law merely protecting against the possibility of offenders committing future crimes against real children?"
Do you have any data to back that up? Or did some sarcasm just fly over my head.
Careful now, you wouldnt want to upset Slashdot's significant pedophile community.
Someone didn't catch the sarcasm because I wasn't being sarcastic. I sit on the fence with a lot of issues, pedophilia is one of maybe three or four with which I don't. After using too much moderation on everything else, all of that unused certainty is poured into a small number of things. I don't believe there is any punishment too severe for a pedophile. The death penalty is too quick, a jail sentence has them safe from the rest of the world. It is the only case in which I would approve the use of torture - indeed, in it's most sadistic form, since the goal isn't information or confession, just suffering. Obviously everyone who has modded me down thinks kid-fucking is okay. What happens? First we decide computer generated child porn is okay, five years time we're seeing huge support rallies for equal rights for pedophiles?
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I'm under no illusion I am a good person, but pedophiles take pleasure in harming - physically and emotionally - people in no position to defend themselves. Helpless children. I don't mean to redeem anyone's opinion of myself by justifying torture, and I honestly don't care if people don't approve of the way I think. Some people take it upon themselves to grandstand about the environment, some people try to force others to quit smoking. Some people claim video games and rap are tearing down society. At least I have a firm stance on something that matters. I have a firm stance, that everyone will disagree with aloud, but more than a few will silently agree with. I know I come off as a sick bastard when I talk about this, but the only people who'll ever be harmed are myself, from dwelling too much on it, and if I ever finally completely snap, one or two people who've done almost irreparable harm to innocent children. Let me get one thing straight: I have never, and will never harm an innocent person. I would likely kill myself first if my thoughts ever turned to hurting good people.
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You are a retard. You are comparing a lifestyle that involves consenting adults to one that exploits children. That is a worse comparison than apples and oranges. That is more like comparing apples to atomic bombs. The people who do this to children are sick in the same way that people who go after animals are sick. It's a mental illness that should be treated. Even this isn't enough to hold anybody with that illness guiltless. You can't say "I'm sick in the head I couldn't help myself". It's not an insanity defense or get out of jail free card. It simply means that it is abnormal, unhealthy, and requires rehabilitation not just punishment. Homosexuality is completely different in that an adult can consent to enter into a relationship with another adult. The difference between rape and sex is whether there is consent. Children, animals, whatever, can't give consent therefor it is always considered a rape. Get a clue you ignoramus.
Computer generated child porn being legal creates a loophole. Anyone with real child porn can claim it's computer generated. If they change a few things in the photo or video so the light-mapping is wrong, it can even look fake to an analyst. I normally see the world as one big grey mess with no certainty or absolutes. When it comes to pedophilia, in any form, I fail to see any grey. It's all pretty much black and white to me.
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