Any media that depicts children as sexual is promoting pedophilia
What a terrible take. The same way that violent video games promote violence and is harmful to children?
Children are not sexual
No children are involved
Catering to their fantasies emboldens them to act.
There is 0 evidence of this, and some evidence to the contrary. Having an outlet that involves 0 victims is beneficial. But even still, there are people that are into this that have 0 interest in actual children. Because it's just a fantasy, the same way that people have rape fantasies.
By the way, just because these are digital renderings does not mean that there is no harm. Seeing such content can still be harmful to past victims.
This is true of literally everyone and any one. Anyone can be victimized by anything and be traumatized by seeing it. That's not a reasonable argument to throw around accusations of child abuse.
They specifically called it “child abuse content”, not “child abuse”. This seems perfectly valid, no?
No, this is not valid. MAYBE if they added "fictional child abuse content" or something, but even that would be misleading. There's no child, so it can't be child abuse, and thus can't be child abuse content.
Calling this child abuse is what's fucking disgusting. This is adults role playing with fucking digital renderings. Literally no children involved. Go clutch pearls elsewhere
America is the USA. If you're talking about the continent, that's either North America or South America. No matter how much you want to complain, "America" is how you refer to the USA.
I wonder if regular and public reminders of the punishment for certain crimes would do more of a deterrent than just the threat of years of incarceration.
No. Studies show that basically the only thing that impacts whether a person who would otherwise want to commit a crime might be dissuaded is the chance of being caught.
Because the reason there are overdoses is because no one has any idea the strength of any of the drugs they take. Knowing exactly the dose of the drug you're taking because it's legally purchased is a gigantic benefit
It exists because we wouldn't be here if it didn't. That's all there is to it really. You're asking for an answer if "why". Why did the earth form in the exact place that it did? Things are allowed to arise randomly, and natural selection isn't an explanation for the begging of the universe
How is this relevant