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Old 02-28-2013, 10:57 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by onetwo_threefour View Post
He certainly has an interesting and limited concept of doing no harm to another person. I guess it's okay to watch and even pay to watch somebody rape or kill somebody else as well since the watcher is not actually hurting anyone...
But what if the video of someone raping someone is just "out there"? Paying someone to make the video (or making the video one's self) is pretty clear, but it's less clear (to me anyway) where the harm comes from in watching a video that already exists.

It doesn't harm the victim further, that harm has already been done.

What's the difference between someone viewing a rape video that's "in the wild", someone viewing a movie that depicts rape, or someone drawing a cartoon depicting rape?

Kind of playing devil's advocate here, but I also think I get what his point is, that I don't want to be in a society that has thought crimes.
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