I understand that you are not supporting that opinion, but I would like to rebut anyway.
Whether it significantly reduces the rates of child sexual abuse is besides the point. If someone thinks it's okay for one child to be abused so another may or may not be abused later, they need to check into the nearest psychiatric ward immediately.
We are human beings, for fucks sake. We should be holding ourselves to a higher standard than that.
Someone should make a site to permanently enshrine all the bugfuck insanity these people are trying to use to defend the indefensible.
Not to mention the sinister side-effect of allowing CP to reduce abuse- last I heard, much of it is produced via children from second-world countries. So in the end, we internalize all the benefit within the USA, and externalize all the suffering to downtrodden nations and their children.
I recently made the same distinction on HN, but there's not much point to it because the Moral Majority has made real discussion of CP so toxic that pretty much everyone avoids it. The situation is so bad that your very question might get you branded as a "pedophile". I believe that what Reddit is doing represents a slippery slope, one made out of legal convenience, and that the above distinction, rather than issues of copyright, represents the real battlefield for online freedom of speech.
Whether it significantly reduces the rates of child sexual abuse is besides the point. If someone thinks it's okay for one child to be abused so another may or may not be abused later, they need to check into the nearest psychiatric ward immediately.
We are human beings, for fucks sake. We should be holding ourselves to a higher standard than that.
Someone should make a site to permanently enshrine all the bugfuck insanity these people are trying to use to defend the indefensible.