RE: Jared Fogle & Subway
November 22, 2015 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2015 at 1:12 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(November 22, 2015 at 12:00 am)Aractus Wrote:(November 21, 2015 at 11:33 pm)Exian Wrote: How does legality change the damaging nature of child porn?
Well it doesn't, but it wasn't produced in the same way as child abuse material. That is participants were willing.
This is a stupid point. Children aren't competent, legally or morally, to give consent for sex, whether that sex is filmed as part of a business transaction or a part of a personal relationship. That incompetence to give consent is precisely why we regard child molestation as immoral: it is inherently nonconsensual. In that sense, it is no different than rape.
(November 22, 2015 at 12:00 am)Aractus Wrote: Just like it doesn't change the damaging nature of American porn to performers today.
This is an irrelevancy, and a form of tu quoque. You're avoiding the point by yammering, "But other people are hurt by other things, too!"
The problem with your comparison is that you are comparing adults who are legally and morally competent to decide for themselves who gets to fuck them, and children who are neither legally nor morally able to consent getting fucked by anyone who can talk them -- or their parents --into it.
