Comment on Rule 34 rule

• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  to get off to drawings of children

  They are not drawings of children, they are drawings of fictional characters that look like children. That is an important distinction here I think. Obviously getting off to a drawing of a real child is wrong.

  what’s the difference between a photo of a child and a realistic drawing of a “fictional character” that looks like said child?

  That’s my whole point, it make all the difference. One is an actual human person that feels emotions and is harmed by the creation and spread of csam, while the other literally doesn’t exist.

  That’s why I think it is not actually immoral. (I believe morality and legality should align anyways)

  I think your disgust might come from anthropomorphising the fictional character and feeling empathy towards it?

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  • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have always felt the “actually she’s 1000 years old and just looks like a child” argument is both ridiculous and disingenuous. They’re interested because she looks like a child, not because of her character supposed age. Again, but rephrased, what’s the difference if someone makes a character that looks like a real child but is fictional and much older in their characterization? At what point is it morally acceptable? Do you need to use an ambiguous art style? Do you need to include inhuman character traits? I simply cannot take the argument seriously, because clearly the character looking like a child is important. What difference does the story you tell yourself about their age make? Why not just pretend real CSAM is just young looking aliens that are a million years old? If it looks like a child, I believe it’s unequivocally immoral, and there is no line you can draw that would convince me that a childlike drawing that falls on the “OK” side of the line isn’t immoral.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have always felt the “actually she’s 1000 years old and just looks like a child” argument is both ridiculous and disingenuous

      I haven’t made that argument

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      • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s the same argument, that the character only looks like a child, but isn’t. I chose a hyperbolic example for emphasis, but it’s the same argument. It looks like a child. That’s the point.

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