Re:Convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims
by kergonath on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:05AM
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Yeah. This is a travesty of justice. And massively hypocritical, if you don’t also punish people who draw murder scenes for normalising and encouraging violence.
Re:Convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims
by dependenttypes on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:03AM
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Similarly in some countries it is illegal to be found in possession of marihuana (or even just xanax https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/28/laura-plumme...). In the same spirit it was illegal until relatively recently in the UK to have homosexual sex (see Turing).
In Australia, it's illegal (and someone was convicted) for downloading a drawing of child-like cartoon character (Simpsons) performing a sexual act [1]. The rationale is explicitly that although nobody was harmed in the specific instance, the act normalizes and encourages harm to real victims.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-12-08/fake-simpsons-cartoon...