Eclectic Effusions

Gotcha Blog Post

I recently posted this opinion during an online debate on child-sex offenders. There were far too many people writing in trying to provide excuses and intellectualising the most disgusting of all crimes....

Gotcha Blog Post:

To say that mere possession of child porn is ‘victimless’, is extraordinarily naive at best, and makes you liable as an apologist at worst.

Viewing images of criminal acts, taken obviously at the time of perpetration of the crime, places the viewer in a position of ‘accessory to the fact’, in both legal, and moral terms. This is why ‘viewing’ child porn is as odourous as perpetration. Unless the purpose of ‘viewing’ is to determine the identity of the silent victim or the perpetrator for prosecution, the viewer is gulity of creating ‘demand’ for the product. It’s the same as drug pushers, who may not be ‘users’ per se, but are as criminally liable as ‘promoters’. They are ‘feeding’ a market. They are as guilty as the manufacturers.

And for those expressing the extraordinary view that child sex-abuse ‘may or may not’ cause long term psychological harm, I, for once, am almost speechless. The only reason I can see that someone would or could make that assertion, is perhaps because they are damaged victims themselves unable to consciously discern the crime (and in need of urgent therapy), or apologists with tenuous links to the ‘market’.

Unbelievable, and sincerely troublesome.
Posted: Sat 08 Jul 06 at 08:13pm"

posted by The Eclectic Warrior @ 9:22 pm