As Justice Anthony Kennedy said, would you ban somebody writing an explicit version of romeo and Juliette?
It's CHILD porn....are you actually defending it?
Now Romeo and Juliette is child porn? The law needs to protect children, but it has resulted in children being convicted of creating and distributing child porn by taking a naked selfie. What can we do to protect children imitating adults.
Virtual child porn. I could not care less about Romeo and Juliet.
Dear
SassyIrishLass
1. I thought what made real child porn so dangerous was that the production of the images films or video involved abusing children in real life to create that material in the first place. Similar to snuff videos that involve killing or torturing animals which violates animal cruelty laws.
We would have to be careful how laws are written.
Example: If you get "too vague" or "overly broad" with "what IS virtual child porn"
then what if someone makes a cartoon of Romeo and Juliet with Juliet being 14 and Romeo being 18,
doesn't he count as an adult committing statutory rape if Juliet is more than 1-2 years within his age?
Technical issues like that can mean the difference between someone
getting labeled for LIFE as a sex offender.
2. Again my point is to go after the ADDICTION the DEMAND that is sick and dangerous.
Otherwise, you get into the business of banning alcohol because of the DANGER
of addiction, drunk driving, etc. Are you going to protect people from dangerous addicts
by BANNING alcohol or certain levels or concentrations of it?
Why not make it illegal to provide alcohol, marijuana or other drugs
to people with dangerous levels of addictions. Make a separate
"health and safety" ordinance similar to OSHA, where abuse or addictions
can be reported for counseling or corrections "as a threat to public health or safety"
and not "criminalize" the process of diagnosing and treating DISEASES
such as mental addictions that can be detected and monitored medically
similar to diabetes or cancer that develop in stages from curable to terminal and deadly.
Treat the disease, don't criminalize the alcohol or other materials used by addicts because of their sickness.
UNLESS as in the case of real child porn or snuff videos, the production of the material is already
in violation of rights and laws protecting children, animals etc. from actual harm in the making of the materials.
SassyIrishLass I agree with you we should protect children further;
we do have a MORAL responsibility not to let the trafficking and porn industry PROFIT
off people's sickness and addictions fueling this demand!
But we cannot abuse GOVT to do the work that the CHURCH is supposed to do SPIRITUALLY
in policing sexual lives and behavior. The best solutions I've found to detecting, treating and curing
ADDICTIONS and ABUSE (including extremely dangerous mental and criminal illnesses from
demonic schizophrenia to pedophile addictions and stalking/serial predatory obsessions)
ARE the spiritual healing methods used by Christian and/or Catholic ministries
which work on deep spiritual therapy including generationally inherited sicknesses
that can't be detected (nor prosecuted) by secular standards (though the symptoms
and reduction/cure of them can be quantified/measured and documented by medical science).
The govt cannot simply legislate or regulate this highly and deeply complex process of
spiritual diagnosis and cure of inborn addictions causing criminal illness.
We can set up a process for abuses and threats to be reported so that dangerous
conditions can be DETECTED and REQUIRE intervention to correct deadly illness
from putting the public at risk. So that's GOING AFTER the addiction as a medical
and safety problem, NOT just criminalizing the materials that people use who may have
dangerous levels of addictions not safe for children or other people to be around.
the cure is still a spiritual process that requires voluntary agreement to undergo or it doesn't work.
The cure is based on "forgiveness' of past and current conditions that cause or fuel the addictions.
So nobody (especially not govt!!)
can "force or compel" another person to go through forgiveness, that's not how the process works.
We can order someone to be put into detention who has such a dangerous level of
addiction they are threatening other people. We need to focus on that, on the
medical process of dealing with these abuses and addictions, in order to stop the demand.
SassyIrishLass another side benefit of this approach to decriminalizing mental illness
while making it mandatory to detain CRIMINAL level addiction untl the person can be
diagnosed treated and/or cured is that such an approach will ALSO solve related
problems with "school safety" and risks of gun violence/sex addict teachers etc. that can be
reduced or prevented by screening out the mental health issues BEFORE they harm children.
So with one solution, we can solve MANY problems instead of trying to ban or criminalize the external focus
that isn't addressing the root cause and addictions which are the true danger to children and society.
