I highly doubt that you don't find that 15 year old girl to be attractive, but feel free to keep lying to yourself (or just others) for whatever reason. Like I said, all research is on my side, blah blah blah, maybe you are one of the exceptionally rare males who is not attracted to 15 year olds but it is highly doubtful given how rare they are. Over the past few days I came up with a nice analogy to show why thinking with emotions is a bad thing. This idea was brought on by novocaines observation that the victims will never side with me. Imagine that there is a world owned by the couple Alice and Bob, and they create the laws of the world and enforce them but they only enforce laws that have already been created. Alice and Bob have two young kids, Carol and Dan. One day, Carol decides she wants to try MDMA. Unforunately, due to the war on drugs of Alice and Bob, Carol cannot get MDMA from a legitimate source, and rather gets it from the shady dealer Earl. Except to make a quick buck and duck the law, Earl has passed off some dangerous research chemical as MDMA, and because of this Carol overdoses and dies. Now Alice and Bob are quite emotional people, and as they feel they have been victimized by drug users and drug dealers, they create even more strict laws against drugs. In a big round up of drug dealers, they arrest both Earl and another drug dealer named Fran. Now, Fran only sold high quality drugs and never misrepresented them to try to make a buck at the risk of her customers health. But Alice and Bob don't care because Fran is a drug dealer, and drug dealers killed their little girl. So now Alice and Bob feel emotionally satisfied that they have done something in the name of their daughter, cracked down on drugs, etc. But nothing changes! The drug laws are even more restrictive, people have higher motivation to pass off dangerous legal drugs as saught after substances, and although Earl is rightfully in jail Fran is in jail despite never having caused harm to anybody or wronged anybody at all. But any appeal to logic is seen as crazy by Alice and Bob, after all, drug dealers killed their daughter and they are victims of the drug dealers and will never side with the people who hurt their daughter. In a more logical world, Alice and Bob would realize that although superficially the reason their daughter died is because of the bad drugs Earl sold her, in reality the reason she died is because there was a war on drugs in the first place. If drugs were not forced to be underground, self regulation of the industry would occur on a much larger scale, people like Earl would not be reputable, people would get brand name drugs from legitimate stores and the quality would be assured as the brand of the company selling the drugs would depend on it. Stores like this would likely be operated by dealers like Fran, and dealers like Earl would never even be part of the equation. So instead of seeing drugs and drug dealers as one big system, Alice and Bob would be better to analyze the *details* of the system, and had they done so they would realize the root cause of the problem was not Earl but rather their policy on drugs in the first place. And assuming they have an emotional rather than logic response, the fact that nothing has really changed is going to lead their other child Dan to be at risk of meeting the same fate as Carol. It becomes a perpetual cycle of tragedies, the tragedies being that kids like Carol and Dan are dying, that innocent people like Fran are going to prison despite not really being bad people, etc. The only thing that changes is the emotional response of Alice and Bob, they *FEEL* that their actions are making a difference despite the fact that their actions are causing this horrible cycle. The same thing holds for CP as well. Imagine the same characters, except this time Carol is abducted, raped and murdered by Earl (and Fran is now Fred). Now Earl also takes pictures of the molestation of Carol and publishes them on the internet. Fred is a pedophile but he doesn't rape kids because he has the ability to control himself. But he doesn't feel that he causes harm to anybody by looking at their photographs, and he views CP to help him manage his deviant urges, plus it is legal to do so in the Land Of Alice and Bob. Now since Alice and Bob are emotional and have an emotional response, immediately after their daughter is killed they crack down on pedophiles. Now just viewing CP gets a death sentence, and they round up many pedophiles and kill them along with Earl (Although Fred remains undetected). Alice and Bob are still hurt at the loss of their daughter, but they feel better and more in control knowing that they have done something. But the situation has not really been made better, in fact it has been made worse. Fred has always had urges to rape kids, but has kept it in check partially by using pornography as an outlet. He knew in the past that viewing CP was legal and he could not get in trouble for it, but now if he looks at it he risks the same death sentence as someone who actually molests kids. Now maybe he is a good person and decides he still will look at pictures instead of rape kids, because he doesn't want to damage kids. But his motivation for not raping kids just got a lot less. He cannot control his desires and he needs an outlet, he could try to abstain from all such activities but realistically that is just not likely to happen. So maybe he ends up abducting and killing Dan, the other child of Alice and Bob. And the cycle of tragedies continues, kids are abducted and raped and photographed and killed, people have emotional responses and it leads them to hurt a lot of people who are not really doing anything that causes harm to society (all the people who were merely looking at photographs), and indeed they make it MORE likely for such people to START causing actual harm to society (because now they will get the same sentence for viewing images as they will for actually raping kids). The only thing good that comes of it is that Alice and Bob feel more in control, they *FEEL* like they are making a difference, but it is just a delusion, just a feeling, a deceptive emotion that is the opiate they use to mask their pain. In reality they are contributing to the problem, and the cycle will continue over and over and nothing will change but more kids will be hurt and more innocent people will be sent to prison and killed. In a more logical world Alice and Bob would be able to *SEE* that it is not Freds fault that their daughter was killled, sure kill Earl he certainly deserves nothing but death, but he is a different thing than Fred. Alice and Bob will say oh we are the victims of pedophiles how could we ever side with them, but in thinking this way (based off of their emotions) they are contributing to tragedies instead of preventing them. We need to look at the parts of these things and see what the real problem is. The problem is not drug dealers and drugs, the problem is bastards selling dangerous drugs as less dangerous drugs, the problem is caused by the same war on drugs that people rally for when the problem manifests itself with the death of a child. And then they send more and more innocent people to prison, people who if given a chance would stop the deaths associated with drugs or at least reduce them significantly. The problem is not pedophiles looking at pictures, the problem is people who cannot control themselves and/or have no respect for the life of a human. This problem is intensified by the same war on pedophiles looking at pictures, because it equates them with people who abuse children and if they are seen as equal or punished such that they may as well be equal, there is less motivation for them to not rape kids. If they are seen as just as bad to society as the people actually raping kids, they will internalize that in many cases, they will say I am not going to stop doing things like this because I nearly cannot, and if they think I am as bad as possible for looking at pictures why shouldn't I rape kids? And it takes a truly good person and logical person at that to realize that right and wrong are independent of what this brainwashed society says, because even if society says looking at CP is as bad as raping a child I have to respect the pedophiles who know better than this. And it is the same thing, a bunch of preventable tragedies done in the name of the good feelings of the victims, so the current victims can feel good and feel in control and like they are doing something to help, we let them do things that are not only unhelpful but are counter productive, things that lead to the deaths of children and to the demonization of people who should be seen as neutral or even applauded for knowing that looking at a picture is not the same thing as raping a fucking child.