Comment on US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 4 months agoI don’t condone child sexual abuse, and I’m definitely not a pedo (gosh, I can’t believe I have to state this.)
But how does banning AI generated material help combating a mental illness? The mental illness will still be there, with or without images…
Mainly it’s a probably of enabling the problem as others have mentioned.
It’s not a solution, per se. It doesn’t solve something specifically- but it doesn’t have to be. It’s about making it less accessible, harsher consequences, and so on to put more pressure on not continuing to participate in the activity. Ultimately it boils down to mental health and trauma. Pedophilia is a paraphilic disorder at the end of the day.
We don’t disagree. But your argument is different from the OP. Your argument is “these images are horrible. Let’s wipe them out of the face of Earth because they’re wrong.”
But OP practically said “not having access to these images will help people ‘cure’ their paraphilia.” I don’t think that has any scientific basis, though I’ll be happy to stand corrected.
I am the original commentator, unless you’re referring to the poster who just posted a quote and the link to the article
I’m not sure where you’re drawing these argument conclusions from and it’s bordering on muddying the water.
Sorry, yes, I was referring to what you originally said (I thought it was another commenter.)
Well, the same thing I can say about your argument conclusions and the same “muddying the water” opinion.
Your stance is “banning this X type of content will help cure Y,” and I’d like to see the science backing this up. That is all. I’m not defending pedophilia if that’s what you’re implying with “muddying the waters.” It’s just that I’m all for evidence, even if the evidence makes us (yes, me included) uncomfortable.
please learn the difference between posting and commenting.
I know the difference.
I’ve used “OP” to refer to a parent poster (or commenter) for decades, on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and now here. I won’t change it unless there’s a major shift in the community.
Leg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s something to be said about making it as difficult as possible to enable the behavior. Though that does run the risk of a particularly frustrated individual doing something despicable to an actual child. I don’t exactly have the data on how all this plays out, and frankly I don’t want to be the one to look into it. Society isn’t particularly equipped to handle an issue like this though, focusing on stigma alone to kinda try to shove it under the rug.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Your second sentence is exactly what I was thinking of. The big issue with pedophilia is the fact that kids can be easily manipulated (or forced!) to do heinous acts. Otherwise, what’s the difference with regular porn and topics about prisoners, slavery, necrophilia, etc? Would we say that people who consume rape fantasy porn will go out and rape? If a dude who is sexually attracted to women is not raping women left and right every day all year round, you know, because he knows it’s wrong, if we’re not labeling every heterosexual male as creeps, then why would this be different with other kinds of attractions?
But anyway. I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been discussed in the past (I’m sure.) I’m just glad I don’t have that condition (or anything similar, like attracted to volcanoes), otherwise life would definitely suck.