[lopmotr]

I think child porn laws are too one-size-fits-all. It's supposed to be to be a disincentive to abusing children to produce the images for profit. Once it's well and truly public so the profit motive is gone, it should become legal. Or at least at the same status as revenge porn if the subjects are identifiable.

Unfortunately, most people are too puritanical to even dare to think about the topic, let alone opens debate it or soften the law.

[sgt101]

Every time one of those images is viewed it's an attack on the person in it, the person who could not, and never can give their consent. Also the normalisation of the behavior in the images enables abusers.

The law is there to protect children, profit doesn't feature in the calculations.

[lopmotr]

Viewing an image obviously doesn't harm anyone directly. What's the chain of causation between that act and the harm, assuming no payment.

Normalization of behavior is a worry that always comes up with "immoral" information. Violent movies, violent video games, adult porn, strip clubs, prostitution, open homosexuality, etc. You'd need actual evidence to support the claim that it makes things worse not better or neutral.