19-year-old from Florida sentenced to 68 years

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Artaxerxes II
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Re: 19-year-old from Florida sentenced to 68 years

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Who does this protect?
No actual person. The blanket ban on PIM is part of a moral crusade to protect the societal image of the pure and innocent child, rather than protecting actual children. You'd think that, if antis were genuinely concerned, then they would merely stop at criminalising production of PIM that isn't self-produced, rather than go for criminalising possession too.

To prove how this is less about protecting people rather than is about protecting a specific image of children, you don't need to look farther than the antis' rationale for banning possession that essentially boils down to a metaphysical argument on how someone having or watching PIM will cause the "victim" to be "re-victimised" repeatedly which, if applied in any other context (pictures of murder, or people being humiliated, etc...), would be laughed out. But since it's about childhood innocence, all logic must be abandoned for the sake of preserving the mythical image of the innocent child.
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Re: 19-year-old from Florida sentenced to 68 years

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There's no sanity to it, no consistancy. It's immoral and broken and it's just a shame that peoples lives get destroyed as a result.
Keep every stone they throw at you. You've got castles to build.
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To endaavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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