Keep dreaming. (you're clearly confusing Liberals with Libertarians)
Keep dreaming yourself. How about you look up the official Libertarian party position on child pornography possession? I already know 100% for a fact that the Libertarian party of the USA 100% supports complete legalization of child pornography possession and distribution.
http://reason.com/blog/2008/04/23/suffer-the-little-children
An anonymous commenter at the invaluable Third Party Watch posted a series of quotes on child sex allegedly from left-libertarian presidential candidate Mary Ruwart's book Short Answers to the Tough Questions. I've looked through the book, and, yes: This is Ruwart's response to the question "How can a libertarian argue against child pornography?"
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.
The anonymous anti-Ruwartian's tone is pretty smear-y... nonetheless, it's accurate to say that Ruwart argued against at least anti-child pornography law and at most laws convering statutory rape. Ruwart is right up there with Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root as a frontrunner for the LP nomination, so I'm curious as to 1)who's digging this up and 2)who will turn against her because of it.
A prominent libertarian politician straight up resigned from the party when he attacked her for making those claims, due to the massive backlash the party had to him.
http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2008/04/25/libertarian-presidential-front-runner-defends-child-porn/
Liberals are more likely to favor mandatory 'treatment' for those arrested possessing child pornography, where as conservatives of course advocate that they are locked up with the key thrown away. The libertarian position is more liberal than the liberal position, they advocate that distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography be decriminalized.
That wouldn't jive with property rights. Can anyone use my image for anything they want?... no.
Can anybody go to prison for taking your picture and using it for anything they want? Not usually. In the majority of cases it would be a civil rather than a criminal matter. In all cases where the person using your image is using it for personal viewing only, it would be a civil rather than a criminal matter. Right now viewing child pornography is a serious felony punishable by up to thirty years in prison, large amounts of financial restitution to the depicted children and a lifetime as a registered sex offender. In a libertarian world, it would either be completely legal to view child pornography, or it would be a civil matter punishable by a fine but not jail time.
I don't see why you're so hung up about the contention that pedo victims are wronged each time their images/video are shared without their permission, especially pics/videos of them being abused. The only explanation for this is quite obvious. It's such a minute inane argument to pick, anyone who is anti-pedo could care less about this bs splitting of hairs. But since you keep droning on about it...
I am not really hung up on it, it is just the most easily destroyed claim made by those in favor of child pornography possession being criminal. It is so stupid that it makes them look beyond retarded. It is also the original claim I saw made by the prosecutor mentioned in the first part of this article. More sophisticated dumbshits argue the market theory for criminalization, that argument makes a bit more sense in that it is not based on voodoo witchdoctor magic, but of course it is also incorrect.
I think you're looking at it backwards. The victims aren't necessarily physically/physiologically re-offended when you sicko's trade their pics/video... but the reaction, the satisfaction the offenders get from it IS the same. The original offender raped the kid for gratification... you sicko's dl the images/video for the same gratification. The goal/motivation for the crime is recommitted each time one of you sicko's jerks it to said material... thus each time any of this material is traded, it's as if the crime is happening again.
So if somebody is attracted to children and adults, and they get the same sexual satisfaction from child pornography and adult pornography, you think it should be illegal for them to look at adult pornography as well? So pretty much you are just upset about people who have sexual attraction to children being sexually satisfied in any way, regardless of if any children are harmed or not???
My motivation for taking drugs is pleasure. A pedophiles motivation for raping children is pleasure. Since we both have pleasure as our goal/motivation, does that mean that drug use is equal to child molestation?
If I write a book, everyone copying that book without my permission is offending me each and every time.
Anybody who illegally views a copy of your book is committing a civil offense not punishable by prison time. The copier is committing a criminal offense, but it isn't anywhere near as bad of a charge as that of distributing child pornography.
Like you could seriously say that if you (or your kids, wife, grandma) were videotaped being brutally raped... that the video should be allowed to remain public???
My image, DNA, or thoughts, are not the property of you or the government... nor is that of my kids.
Your DNA is the property of whoever collects it off public property, if you leave it in public it is public property by current law. You do have some rights to your image and definitely have the right to your thoughts. This is the only libertarian argument that exists against child pornography, it is not an argument that child pornography should be illegal but rather is an argument that child pornography is the property of the children depicted in it. Therefor it should fall under all of the civil and criminal protections of other sorts of property. In such a case mere illegal possession of child pornography for personal use would be punishable by a fine at the worst, and even illegal distribution of child pornography would carry a much less significant potential sentence. So the libertarians who do argue this way are indeed still in favor of decriminalization of child pornography possession and distribution, just with the permission of the property owner. However many libertarian anarchists are against the concept of intellectual property itself, so they would be in favor of complete legalization of the distribution and possession of all child pornography in all cases.