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by droithomme 4943 days ago
It's past time for a contrarian viewpoint.

How about we legalize child porn? The vast majority of the time when it gets brought up is in the context of using it as a pretext to attack civil liberties of law abiding citizens.

When there is a child porn arrest it almost always ends up being a honey trap run by the FBI using decades old photos, so it's not like there are many children being protected by these laws.

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Do you have numbers to back that up? I don't have that impression. But maybe our equivalent of the FBI is not as active in setting up honey traps.
Sounds like a paedophile's rationalisation...
You spelled paedophile the right way. sounds like you know a lot about it...
Thanks.