No it isn't empathy is the ability to recognize emotion in others and the capacity to emotionally respond to the emotional state of others. Empathy is not an emotion. Good for you, I don't hurt others either! Looking at pictures of people being hurt doesn't hurt them. Sure I agree but the difference is that you do no understand what causes people to be hurt and what does not. Sure, hatred is an emotion. The ability to support those who take advantages of other, at least to some degree, is something that people should have the liberty to do. Sure, freedom is doing whatever you like so long as it does not initiate force against others. Looking at pictures doesn't initiate force against anyone. If it were not for the police, most people wouldn't even be able to tell if someone is looking at a picture with them in it or not. At the end of the day my argument really boils down to the simple fact that looking at pictures doesn't cause harm to others, and therefor it should not be illegal to look at pictures. It really depends on what you mean by support, but certainly I think it should be legal for people to express an opinion that it is good for kids to be abused, even though I disagree with the opinion. Censorship is *always* bad. The vast, vast majority of people who look at CP will never be arrested for it, even in the USA. Every year they identify something like 50 + million IP addresses trading CP on P2P networks, under 500,000 of them are arrested a year, for a total of less than one percent of the total identified per year. There simply are not enough resources to lock up all the people known to have viewed CP, and those are only the people they know have done it not the people using good enough anonymity to avoid detection. Uh-huh then why do you spell it paedo and mum lol. Does your mum know all about the porn you look at?! And I also don't recall ever saying I look at child porn....