But I don't think people should be able to rape children and I think pedophilia is a mental disorder... I just don't think there should be laws against looking at pictures of anything. And I don't think pictures are magic. I am aware that there is a large body of evidence showing that availability of child pornography negatively correlates with the rates of child abuse, many researchers say there is no enough evidence one way or another, and some government groups that are funded via arresting people for viewing CP say that there is a huge correlation (but they have been debunked). It continues to emerge in research that the groups that abuse children are very distinct from the groups that view child pornography, they have minimal overlap. This will become more and more common knowledge as time passes. Regardless of this, there is a strong correlation between being a rapist and being a male, this doesn't mean we should arrest all males because they might rape somebody at some point. I don't deny that this has happened in the past, I do say that in modern times it happens next to not at all. There is essentially no remaining financial market for child pornography, and nobody is going to run out and molest children just because people want to see pictures of it. Furthermore, there are technical solutions that would allow people to view child pornography without any demand being identifiable, and yet when I bring these solutions up none of the crusaders think they change anything, which shows pretty plainly that the crusaders are actually not arguing that child porn viewing should be illegal because of demand, even though they ostensibly are. I already have given citations to Ph.D researchers who claim that there has been no empirical evidence inherently linking child pornography consumption to the production of child pornography. Furthermore, if there is demand for photographs of you cutting your dick off and jamming it up your asshole, are you going to fill the demand? I guess demand is not inherently linked to supply after all. Furthermore, I have no demand for pictures of you taking a shit, are you going to stop taking shits now? And this is bullshit. What is the difference between pictures of a child being raped and pictures of the holocaust? There is no difference. You are attributing magical properties to pictures of child molestation. It is insane to think that someone is an accessory to a crime simply because they looked at pictures of the crime, end of story. You funded theft. Someone who views a picture of child molestation has not caused child molestation. I already said it should be illegal to pay for pictures of child pornography. Let's say you want a certain job, and you compete with someone else for it. Someone who you do not know brutally murders the person who was your competition, and now you got the job. Are you an accessory to murder because you benefited from the murder?