Re: [tor-talk] help us:Korean government started to fine netizen who download child pornography without child

[Eugen Leitl <eugen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 07:34:48PM +0000, Lee Whitney wrote:
> Eugen do you have children?  Not attacking you based on this but I'm
> curious how it affects perspective.

Yes, I have a kid. Doesn't change a single thing in that attitude.
 
> In my mind it's pretty easy to drawn the line, things that have victims
> should usually be illegal and things that are unpopular but don't hurt
> anyone usually should be legal.  No slippery slope necessary.

Apart from that popular truism the only reason a politician will
invoke one or more of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse is
in order to bamboozle his voters into something they ordinarily
wouldn't do on the their own.

Like Godwin's law, if a politician mentions pedophilia he
has automatically lost the argument.
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