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August 3, 2007 at 12:38 pm #1117049
Intastella
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    andy ridgeway wrote:
    there is still something that makes me uneasy about sending people to prison for looking at an image on a computer screen though, it is a touch ThoughtCrime, isn’t it? i understand the arguments regarding the corrupting nature of the material and that without a market for it, it wouldn’t exist.

    but at the same time, i’ve seen some terrible stuff (none paedophile related, i hurry to add!) on the internet, like russian soldiers being decapitated for instance.

    does having viewed that material make me a murderer? should i do prison time for murder?

    I think the difference is there that people aren’t specifically setting out to murder someone for someone elses viewing pleasure or sexual gratification. If they did, that would make it a snuff film, wouldn’t it? And i think the general concensus is that snuff (and by that i mean proper snuff, not just footage of someone being shot or whatever) is a bit of an urban myth.

    It doesn’t make you responsible for that persons death, just makes you a bit of a wrongun ;op