While that may be true in a few cases, despite some of the more poorly written laws that can punish the same for fake child porn as real child porn and hence dissolve the distinction between the two for an amoral person, this still seems to over-generalize and makes assumptions about those that look at child porn.
Why does it seem like people assume all people that look at child porn are so fundamentally and entirely different than people that look at other porn? It is like some kind of dehumanizing of those that are too different, almost as bad of a caricature in some cases as picturing criminals as black-cloaked, moustache twirling villains. Does every person who has an interest in rape porn go out and rape someone? Or does every married man that looks at vanilla porn go out and cheat on their wife given the chance? Why are people with paedophilia assumed to be the only fetish that cannot have self-control, a sense of the boundary between fantasy and reality, and hence must have no free will to live a moral life?
Viewers of any kind of porn can go too far, violating consent to fulfil their desires, and of course should be punished for their actions upon a victim. But many viewers of various kind of porn don't go too far, and are not representable by those that cause the real problems. You can find some fake child porn viewers stating their own case where they know doing anything to a real child is immoral, regardless of punishment, etc., and hence would not even consider bringing down the barrier between fantasy and reality. But you may have to look hard, as such people often get treated exactly the same as those without self-control or morals, giving a strong disincentive to even discussing such a position. And potentially, this is a reminder to paedophiles that people don't care if they switch from fake child porn to real children, because it is all bad and that is more important than actually trying to stop the molesting of real children.
Sometimes it seems like those that rally against paedophilia have ulterior motives than trying to effectively stop molestation of children, thinking that they have more important, grander goals to champion via such problems, and, to me, that is almost as sick of an idea as those that want to molest the children.
While that may be true in a few cases, despite some of the more poorly written laws that can punish the same for fake child porn as real child porn and hence dissolve the distinction between the two for an amoral person, this still seems to over-generalize and makes assumptions about those that look at child porn.
Why does it seem like people assume all people that look at child porn are so fundamentally and entirely different than people that look at other porn? It is like some kind of dehumanizing of those that are too different, almost as bad of a caricature in some cases as picturing criminals as black-cloaked, moustache twirling villains. Does every person who has an interest in rape porn go out and rape someone? Or does every married man that looks at vanilla porn go out and cheat on their wife given the chance? Why are people with paedophilia assumed to be the only fetish that cannot have self-control, a sense of the boundary between fantasy and reality, and hence must have no free will to live a moral life?
Viewers of any kind of porn can go too far, violating consent to fulfil their desires, and of course should be punished for their actions upon a victim. But many viewers of various kind of porn don't go too far, and are not representable by those that cause the real problems. You can find some fake child porn viewers stating their own case where they know doing anything to a real child is immoral, regardless of punishment, etc., and hence would not even consider bringing down the barrier between fantasy and reality. But you may have to look hard, as such people often get treated exactly the same as those without self-control or morals, giving a strong disincentive to even discussing such a position. And potentially, this is a reminder to paedophiles that people don't care if they switch from fake child porn to real children, because it is all bad and that is more important than actually trying to stop the molesting of real children.
Sometimes it seems like those that rally against paedophilia have ulterior motives than trying to effectively stop molestation of children, thinking that they have more important, grander goals to champion via such problems, and, to me, that is almost as sick of an idea as those that want to molest the children.