Re:Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
by aprilthird2021 on Sunday August 25, 2024 @07:13PM
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Yeah obviously there needs to be a balance. But I think it's popular right now to be unbalanced towards allowing any and all victimless crimes not thinking about the effects they do have on society overall and in the long term vs any particular specific person immediately
Re:Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
by ndriscoll on Sunday August 25, 2024 @08:59PM
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Something can be legal while not being socially acceptable, and we can still strictly police related harms. Like with drugs, we can legalize them while still making e.g. smelling up an area with marijuana carry a public nuisance fine, or make littering with needles a misdemeanor (or more severe if someone gets injured).
If someone's only crime is being disturbing, the government doesn't need to get involved, but we can still not want to be around them and especially keep kids away from them.
Re:Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
by aprilthird2021 on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:55PM
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I think that's a better balance than what we currently do.
By all means, fast track the death penalty for child rapists. Even make a constitutional amendment allowing cruel and unusual punishments for that single crime. Treat paying for actual abuse images as a worse crime than commissioning a murder. Sky's the limit for actual abusers. But (legally) punishing the creation of fake imagery is absurd, and in practice punishing possession seems to be unhealthy for a free society.