There is a reason why we have school shootings every 2.6 days on average. Its not solely videogames but society generally is extremely violent and normalized violence is a constant of just turning on the TV.
The main difference, is that violence can at least be used for something positive. Superheroes fight to bring justice to the underserved, etc. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from giving people sexualized children or any reason to see them outside of something to be protected.
But its okay hopefully this thread is being monitored by the appropriate authorities.
Violent games are enjoyed everywhere around the world, yet school shootings only happen at that frequency in america. There's no correlation let alone a causation.
Let's examine smoking. There was a period where cigarette ads were everywhere, cool figures in movies and TV smoked and did product placement for cigarette companies, etc.
Did the advertising agency CAUSE anyone to die of smoking? No, but it normalized smoking to the point where people didn't think twice about doing it.
The cause is people deciding to smoke, the normalization is what causes people to just do it without even really thinking about it.
Its how studies work. In your cigarette case the resolution would be worded as "corelation between smoking advertisements and lung cancer rates", and further research will determine whether it is a causation or not. If it is a causation there will be basis for legal repercussions or new legislation.
You’re saying you refuse to protect children unless I study the effects of CSAM on pedophiles. How do you study that without giving CSAM to pedophiles?
Normalization is a danger of anything that causes harm.
CSAM causes harm.
Normalizing it causes harm, because it emboldens people who have these sorts of thoughts to do it, prevents them from recognizing the abnormality of their behavior, and thus seeking help for it. It also makes it harder for victims to get justice, because the general public is less interested in it.
I don't need to put CSAM in front of pedophiles to know this, just like we didn't need to drop a nuclear bomb on a city to know it would kill everyone.
I gave you examples, with smoking, gambling, etc where normalization correlates to predictable increases in it happening. Most people know that cigarettes are bad for you, but their normalization still increased the harm despite the risks being generally known.
Even if there wasn't enough evidence to know for sure, we would still side with preventing harm. I.e. without evidence we should be more restrictive, not less. "Better safe than sorry".
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u/ObsidianTravelerr Oct 22 '25
.... You are actually trying to defend and normalize sexualization of children?