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Re: Wishful thinking

Posted by Markaba on 2012-September-10 21:27:10 EDT, Monday
In reply to Wishful thinking posted by lee lette on 2012-September-10 10:56:45 EDT, Monday
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In my view there is no really effective way that child porn can be made legal without harming those already depicted or in preventing the future abuse and recording of others.

First off, you could make the same argument about images of murder. In fact, one of my professors used an example from a TV show (America's Most Wanted or something like it) where a family was watching because they were covering a case in which the family was involved--a close family member had been murdered. On the show the bones of the victim were shown, and it triggered extreme emotional reactions from some of the family members. Art, too, can cause negative emotional reactions in those who see it; perhaps that is even the point of it. Is that a good enough reason to ban it? I am not suggesting that because we don't ban some media, that all media should be accessible to us; I'm simply pointing out that it is clearly a faulty argument that you're making, since the benefits are likely to outweigh the deficits, especially in light of the growing evidence that there's a reverse correlation between child porn consumption and hands-on sex crimes against children ⚠️ ↗.

Pertaining to your second point, you are still on weak ground. As I mentioned in an earlier post, punishing everyone in a society by forbidding them certain media on the basis that some people in the future might be compelled to commit a crime is wrong as well. You cannot punish the whole of society in the present on the basis of what may happen in the future.

I think in the future all child porn and child erotica should be legalized. In the interim, here is a nice compromise: how about in cases where the child victims or participants are known, the government allows the child(ren) to have legal rights to that media once they reach age of majority and to do with it whatever they want, including capitalizing on it? Can you imagine the money they would make? They'd likely be set for life. Of course, there is the possibility that they would want it to remain illegal, but if it's already out there, it would be next to impossible to stop it being spread, so why not let the kids themselves capitalize on it? The added advantage of this is, if there is legal child porn available, people will be less inclined to seek out the illegal stuff. Of course, production would still be highly illegal, and that would likely deter most people from producing it just so the kids could capitalize on it later. The cost to the adult producer is too high (they have no legal rights to it and therefore can't make money on it themselves, plus they go to prison if they get caught), and it seems highly unlikely that all but a handful of kids are going to produce it on there own in order to make money later. Teens, of course, will do, and so what if they do?

Markaba

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