If someone wants to watch it, regardless of the intent, they should be allowed to. Disrespect should not be illegal. That's silly.
Plenty of parallels between the two. People are hurt in the filming of both. It's damaging to the survivors. It feeds into the fetishes of those who would watch such a thing (it's a snuff film). In the case of this film I could argue that potential perpetrators could study the film for their own plans.