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deleted that tweet that was getting ratio'd, not cause I take it back, but because it was generating a disproportionate amount of yelling at me. I'm planning on writing a much more in-depth and less ratio-able blog post about my reasoning on the topic! But to clarify:

8:52 PM · Apr 7, 2022

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My goal here is *reducing* the amount of child sexual abuse that happens. We might disagree on how to do this, but our end goal is the same. I do genuinely think that my strategy in the tweet has a good chance of reducing harm! I'm aligned with you on this.

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Apr 7, 2022

In my view, incentive structures are really hard, and we can see times where what felt like good intentions (like the war on drugs) fucked up big time (creating cartels). Sometimes things that feel unintuitive are the things that end up having the best outcomes.

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People overuse the word "brave" but you're brave to bring up the topic. We can't just not talk about it. Clearly child abuse is a massive problem and it's not getting better.

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I thought it was a great tweet/great point, fwiw, and screw people who willfully misinterpret it. The analogy to lab-grown meats is a good one!

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The more you ignore the differences between the two supposedly analogous set of circumstances, the better the analogy seems, probably

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I think the alphabet boys should look into this dude. Def has some of those dolls and has a certain preference of what should be illegal but isn’t technically illegal because it’s a cartoon. Dude has some uncle problems he should talk to a therapist about..

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As others have pointed out (assuming you’re being genuine which is a big if) you’re totally whiffing on the most important dimension of why people consume child pornography: the knowledge that a real child is being subjected to sex acts.