my question is what these pedo's are being charged with? they havent sexually assaulted any children yet, so therefore they cant be given jail time for not commiting a crime. looking at pictures of children naked is a crime? im not trying to defend them, but it just seems like theyre jumping the gun a little bit with this. the best thing they can do is throw them in a treatment program. what does jail time give them? that doesnt improve anything, except for taking away the slight possibilty of them assaulting a child. even with treatment though, you can never really erase a persons fetish, it can diminish slightly but never disappear. but that still doesnt mean that they all have it in them to commit the crime. the interesting point i also wanted to make is that most of these men who are looking at child porn were probably victimized when they were young, making them also victims of rape and molestation just like the kids in the child porn pictures. these people have problems and to me it seems a little unfair that they are focusing more on capturing the guys looking at the pics, than really going out and finding the people who took these pictures and have actually RAPED these children. its like if they made eating chocolate cake illegal, but then they left chocolate cake out everywhere for everybody to see and putting whoever ate it in jail. they need to get rid of the chocolate cake and worry about that more than the guys who struggle with eating chocolate cake.
Originally posted by Pandemoniac
But another child has all ready... the one on the site. The fact that that child's suffering provides 'entertainment' for a greater number of phedo's compared to the damage they could individually do to a greater amount of kids doesn't justify anything.
The whole abuse, no matter the scale, has to be stopped. You can't just allow a victim-to-viewer ratio, where would you draw the line?
It works on the same priciple as many other things, sacrifice the few for the fate of the many.
2, 3, 4 children molested vs the 125+ that could have been had it not been for the site.
I'm not saying to stop pursuing those who contiue the running of these sites, just saying that there will be consequences.
Originally posted by .😖pace Opera:.
its like if they made eating chocolate cake illegal, but then they left chocolate cake out everywhere for everybody to see and putting whoever ate it in jail. they need to get rid of the chocolate cake and worry about that more than the guys who struggle with eating chocolate cake.
That is a very intelligent statement.
Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
It works on the same priciple as many other things, sacrifice the few for the fate of the many.2, 3, 4 children molested vs the 125+ that could have been had it not been for the site.
I'm not saying to stop pursuing those who contiue the running of these sites, just saying that there will be consequences.
Of course there will be, but letting that site stay open is no alternative... The only alternative is creating porn with people who look younger then 18 but are older or with faked porn... The first one probably already happens, the second one is still illegal in this country because it's to hard to check if those pictures are real or not... But that might become regulated some time
I think letting the site stay open, but quietly picking off 5 or 6 pedophiles that visit the site at a time would be more effecient in the long run. that way you'd get WAY more than just 125 of them, and the children that end up being molested stay at a minimum. after you get nearly all of the pedos, shut down the site.
Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
It works on the same priciple as many other things, sacrifice the few for the fate of the many.2, 3, 4 children molested vs the 125+ that could have been had it not been for the site.
I'm not saying to stop pursuing those who contiue the running of these sites, just saying that there will be consequences.
True perhaps, and I can't offer a solid solution to this problem either. Still every victim in this is one to many, so is every hint of tolerance in this matter, irregardless of the theories behind it.
If we accept the sacrifice of some to save many others, what else is next? Real snuff movies for those who get off on real murders, so they wont go out and kill people themselves?
Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
I think letting the site stay open, but quietly picking off 5 or 6 pedophiles that visit the site at a time would be more effecient in the long run. that way you'd get WAY more than just 125 of them, and the children that end up being molested stay at a minimum. after you get nearly all of the pedos, shut down the site.
That would be better but from what I heard and of course a bit of personal experience those communities are ussually tight, and don't trust a lot of people so if a few of them would suddenly dissapear and then a few more and then a few more it would be known.
Of course it's really just a website without a forum or whatever it would be doable but there are probably a lot of risks to it, especially if those people keep in touch with eachother.