[braingenious]

>…If the latter, what about the well-documented risks of exploitation of consenting adult pornographic performers?

I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at here but your post kind of reads like “child sexual abuse material is equivalent to porn made by consenting adults.” Posing that as a philosophical “what if” and then moving on isn’t very different from just stating that as an opinion.

[thfuran]

For an exceptionally loose definition of "equivalent", yes. And?

[braingenious]

Ok cool, I’m glad we cleared that up.

I am not really interested in engaging on this topic, as the sort of “Debate me!”-style hot take is (in my experience) not usually offered in good faith, rather it’s more often some sort of rhetorical dick measuring contest amongst internet strangers.

[thfuran]

You seem to be operating further from good faith than them.

[braingenious]

For an exceptionally loose definition of "equivalent" good faith and bad faith are equivalent (they’re both phrases that use the word “faith”), same goes for apples and oceans (mostly water)

The position that “things are equivalent in the case that I get to define all of the words “ isn’t the dialectical Judo throw that you think it is, buddy. It does not inspire confidence that a person is being serious.