Comment by kelipso
1 year ago
> But I don't believe seeing anything [they would voluntarily watch] on a computer screen can inflict serious harm to anybody, no matter the age.
You can believe whatever you want but a whole lot of people including me do believe watching shit, voluntarily or otherwise, harms you. Plenty of evidence for it.
I actually do believe everything does harm you in at least some minuscule degree (even things that help you in a way or many, harm you in another). Even breathing does. Yet the degree of harm is not substantial enough to justify prohibition and all the downsides coming from trying to enforce it.
Being a generally normal person I also feel I wish kids see no porn yet as soon as I direct my attention to this feeling and question it I recognize it has no rational reason whatsoever, it's just as subjective as a preference can be. Banning a specific kind of content would be as reasonable as banning a food I personally don't find tasty, even if the majority feels the same - should we waste everyone's effort and sacrifice everyone's rights in such a case?
> no rational reason whatsoever
There are lots of rational reasons including distortion of sexuality, lack of interest in real world sexuality, depression, etc.
I seriously doubt seeing porn before 18 (which, by the way, is and will always be inevitable, no matter how hard we try, every interested teenager will find a way) these things сan cause any of these. And even if it could, lack of interest in real world sexuality sounds almost as great as lack of need to eat: a whole new world of possibility, autonomy, spare time and other resources instead of depending to another thing the world can use as a button to subdue you and drag you into wasteful consumption and playing unnecessary non-ergodic gambles people in sober state of mind would prefer to avoid.
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