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Seems like a pretty big difference. It's got to be worse to actually do something to somone in real life than not do that.

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Just because there are different degrees of severity and different ways to offend doesn't make it not contraband.

I didn't argue they weren't. The person above me argued that the difference didn't matter. It does.

Not really, otherwise perpetrators will just "I was just looking at it, I didn't do anything as bad as creating it". Their act is still illegal.

There was a cartoon picture I remember seeing around 15+ years ago of Bart Simpson performing a sex act. In some jurisdictions (such as Australia), this falls under the legal definition.

> Not really, otherwise perpetrators

You don't think it's worse to molest a child than to not molest a child?

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