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It is a mental illness. If fake images result in less real-world abuse then that's a good thing.
It wont stop abuse just like regular porn won't stop women from getting sexually abused/raped. It being a mental illness does not make it any less harmful to society. It sucks that they were born wrong or were abused to the point of no return but that does not mean they should be allowed to look at regurgitated images of children to get off and its really weird to think otherwise.
I am all for people having their rights and freedoms but that line ends at pedophiles for me. Unfortunately, they are less than human.
Do you think people that are gay are mentally ill? Do you think those people choose specifically to be attracted to people from the same sex? A lot of the same things can de said about people that are attracted to kids.
I'm not trying to say we should in any shape or form tolerate child abuse. But it's important that we recognize that there are people like this and they didn't choose to be that way. People have no problem to talk about punishment, but don't like to also accept that they are also victims in a way.
No, being gay is absolutely not a mental illness. But there are those who are mentally ill that think they are gay when they are not or were abused in a way that caused them to fear/be repulsed by the opposite sex in a major way.
But being gay is also not a fetish and absolutely not comparable to being a pedophile.
Pretty insulting to the gay community tbh.
This took me 2 seconds to google.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sunny-side-of-smut/#:~:text=Perhaps%20the%20most%20serious%20accusation,outlet%20for%20deviant%20sexual%20desires.
Not saying it is impossible, but the simple fact that internet exists or not is absolutely not indicative of porn having a positive or negative effect. It is a pretty weak article to use as evidence against what I am saying when it states clearly that these are only associations and correlations and essentially guesswork.
It is just as fair and, dare I say, more sensible to assume that places with internet have been more informed, more developed, and more progressive than places without and therefore have less uncivilized behaviour.
I will preface this next part by saying I have no idea if it is true or not, and I don't really want to search for it for obvious reasons. But my wife was telling me about a study done in some Asian country where they literally prescribe pedophiles with child-like dolls to "have a harmless outlet" and it was found that it only made their impulses stronger and they eventually grew bored by the dolls. Again, not sure how credible it is so take it with a grain of salt.
I just don't see any reason why we should deem it acceptable in any form.
It's more than you've provided.
If logic and reason is nothing, then fair enough.