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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (47 children)

I'm very conflicted on this one.

Child porn one of those things that won't go away if you prohibit it, like alcohol. It'll just go underground and cause harm to real children.

AI child pornography images, as disturbing as they might be, would serve a "need", if you will, while not actually harming children. Since child pornography doesn't appear to be one of those "try it and you'll get addicted" things, I'm genuinely wondering if this would actually reduce the harm caused to real children. If so, I think it should be legal.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Normalisation in culture has effects on how people behave in the real world. Look at Japan's sexualization of women and minors, and how they have huge problems with sexual assault. It's not about whether or not real children are getting hurt, it's about whether it's morally right or wrong. And as a society, we've decided that CP is very wrong as a moral concept.

[–] fubo 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand, producing porn is illegal in India and they have huge problems with sexual assault too.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Producing - sure. But consuming?

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