[nylsaar]

Your argument is corrupt. It doesn't take science to recognize morality. Each and every child in a porn video is someone's son or daughter. Each and every child has value. Society chooses to make and enforce laws which dissuade deviant behavior. Erode the moral foundation of a society is to watch it crumble.

[sdoering]

Absolutely. You are right. No science needed to identify morality. Therefore lot's of western countries are inherently immoral. Letting gay people openly kiss each other? Some states even let gay people marry. What an abomination to thy Lords rulings.

Not to speak of black people being allowed to vote. To marry without consent of their owners.

Sorry - but do you really need more examples, that arguing with an universal morale is just one big smelly pile of bullshit?

Morale and societal norms change and shift over time. We develop and there is no basic morality, just societal contracts. And that is good. We do not need an entity enforcing or dictating our morals. We need rationality to identify the right rules to live as a society and then a system to enforce these rules in the best possible way (not that we do have that in place anywhere in the world). But given your comment/idea and our current systems I rather live in our current systems. I just do not want to be ruled by some morality dictators.

[syshum]

Morality is personal. What you believe to be immoral is not what another person would believe to be immoral.

When government attempt to legislate morality is when atrocities and abuse occur.

To millions of people in various religions, being gay is immoral, a woman showing her face or hair, is immoral

Adult pornography is considered immoral by a large part of the population.

Instead of making a case for morality, one should use science and logic to make the case for victimization.

Each person has the self evident right to their own body, aka self ownership. We accept this has as the fundamental foundation of Human Rights.

Society through science has shown that children are mentally not equipped to make a choice to have sex as such society has prohibited adults from manipulating children into having sex. We also recognize that any time one person forces another with violence to engage in sex is a violation of their person hood. We have grouped these 2 crimes into the category of rape and created punishments for these crimes

No morality involved.

Using science should also come into play when evaluating the punishment and criminality of viewing or possessing child pornography.

Morality and Emotion have no place in the law