Thought police?

[Aegon]

I think it's a little more complicated than someone being hurt by the individual act. I think the goal is to have the chasm you'd have to cross to go from not having sex with children to having sex with children to be as vast as possible, and for the feedback at every point to be "BAD!"

I guess what it boils down to, is do you think someone who fucks robots kids, and watches cgi kid porn is going to be more likely to go from that to real kid sex, than someone who's told no all the way. Or if you think someone who lives in a society that doesn't have as strong a taboo with child sex is going to be more likely to participate in child sex.

Personally, I think it's in our best interest to avoid an environment that says it's okay to go up to the line on that front. It's definitely thought policing, but sometimes that's just the common sense approach.

It goes back to the basic argument of: this is something bad or illegal that people will do no matter what we do, so we should provide a safe alternative to help prevent it. That logic extends to a lot of things, including this. "It," in this scenario, refers to the distribution of child **** as well as a pedophile actually physically acting upon those desires with an actual human. In theory, a pedophile could satisfy his desires in a private and safe manner, instead of destroying a child's life. Again, somebody who is already sexually attracted to children is not going to stop feeling that just because we yell "BAD!" Society finding them repulsive has yet to stop them from acting on their desires thus far, and the argument that you would create more pedophiles by manufacturing these sorts of things doesn't make very much sense to me.