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Comment by kernoble | Hacker News Reader

So a bookstore is just selling colored pieces of paper, even if those pieces of paper are images of child abuse?

Seriously what is wrong with you? I get that cryto-anarchist are hip and think they're so cool, but there is a real human cost here. Are you OK with that?

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It would help if people critical of the distribution of child porn would make rational arguments without displaying obvious anger but this is a topic that somehow brings out the hate in people. You're just revealing that you don't have the ability to objectively consider what you're talking about and your opinion is worth no more than a Christian's negative opinion of blasphemy. Are you OK with people using God's name in vain? Seriously? The same God that gave you life? See how silly that argument is.

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It's actually very normal and rational to be angered by child abuse. You aren't above it all and morally superior by talking about how you're not angered by children being abused.

whoa nelly. asking for a "rational argument" against distributing child porn before launching into one of the strangest combinations of ad hom and strawman arguments I've ever seen on this web site. here I'll break it down for you:

The grandparent post said (abbreviating):

  But hosting isn't a morality question, they are just storing a number, and hosting company should not have to care what interpretations of a number can exist.

The parent post responded, saying that this is a flawed line of reasoning, because it (imo purposefully) glosses over an important distinction between hosting child porn and hosting most numbers:

  but there is a real human cost here

hope this helps you come to a decision on whether hosting child porn is bad or not!

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In all fairness neither you nor the post that you're trying to back up have made a clear argument yet.

This one here, officers.

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so because child porn and not-child-porn are both stored and transmitted as bytestreams from a hosting company's servers, you can't actually draw a distinction between them? is that where we're landing on this one?

"Playing opera on my stereo isn't a morality question, I'm just creating vibrations in the air, and I should not have to care what interpretations of those vibrations can exist when I play it at 4am with the dial cranked to 11"

can you see how playing semantic games to try to dodge responsibility for poor behavior can be irritating even in the best of circumstances?

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