Grail

For the record, I believe feddit.org goes far beyond the legal requirements with respect to zionist hate speech.

I agree that there's a big difference between natural pedophiles (pedophilia as a sexuality) and Epstein pedophiles (pedophilia as a kink).

The research that I've read on the subject suggests that Epstein pedophiles are opportunistic - they offend when there is an opportunity to do so. That could be having a martini on Epstein's island, or it could be browsing Reddit and seeing a post from r/jailbait. During that first encounter, if the person has enough excuses to be able to say it's not that bad, it's not illegal, it's not actually harming anyone, then they are likely to seek out more "content" and re-offend in worse ways.

In other words, if we make cruelty free imitation child porn available to natural pedophiles, we're going to create more Epstein pedophiles. We're not actually helping by doing that. It's counterproductive.

Legally, it is. I agree with the law that cruelty free imitation child porn is still child porn, just like I believe vegan butter is butter.

Whatever you do, don't put it on Jupiter! It'll get more stupider!

There's an argument to be made that this content satisfies a need for some mentally ill people, and I did believe in that argument when I was younger, but hopefully we've all learned from the Epstein files that demand for this kind of thing can be created from scratch in formerly normal people.

Yes, the name should be changed. The pictures on that community would be completely legal to look at if they were not described as fauxbait, but when they are posted with that framing, they become a crime to look at in Australia (And Finland, according to a Finn on Matrix)

Maybe we should put datacenters on Mars, to warm it up.

Studies show playing video games raises short term aggression. But we have no hard data on the long term causative relationship between video games and violence, because it's very difficult to cause patients to play video games for many years. I sure hope people are learning some of their moral values around violence from video games. I hope Wolfenstein makes people more violent towards neo-Nazis. I hope Horizon makes people more violent towards tech CEOs. I hope Subnautica makes people want to protect nature.

Now I'm going to cite Humm et al., (2020)'s insights into the psychology of first-time CSAM offenders. Most first-time CSAM offenders are unaware that what they're doing is a crime, and they have doubts about the harmfulness of what they're doing. In other words, they're exactly the kind of people who tend to use the fauxbait community, and in fact they have a lot in common with people in this thread such as yourself.

Nonetheless, as a factor motivating onset, such exposure, or ‘opportunity’, is thought to have a ‘greater impact’ on an individual’s likelihood of viewing CEM than pathological motivations or drivers such as overpowering sexual urges

In other words, if you see this kind of porn by accident and you don't think it's that bad, you're more likely to go on to become an online-only child sex offender.

Adults that look young is in no way child porn, and to brand it as such is to stigmatize people for how they look.

I mostly agree with you, and that's why I think it's disgusting that the users of ! fauxbait@fedinsfw.app are calling the women they're posting fauxbait. It's degrading to the women to market their porn as faux child porn.

Also I'm pretty sure Epstein talked a whole lot of rich people into becoming pedophiles. And Stephen Hawking, allegedly.

It's faux jailbait and jailbait is child porn.

Pedophilia is sexual attraction for children, and the community is for people who are sexually attracted to children. It's full of fake child porn for pedophiles to masturbate to. @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app is making the distinction that real child porn is against the rules, but fake child porn for pedophiles to masturbate to is not. @introvertturtle@lemmy.zip is saying it's disgusting that wanting to look at child porn is allowed, regardless of whether the child porn is real or fake.

Those two statements look contradictory because you're conflating pedophilia with child abuse. There's no child abuse in the community, but there's plenty of pedophilia.