Should the number 1 be illegal? the number 1e10000? infinity? What about all the numbers in between? If you answered no, congratulations, you just agreed child porn should be legal. An image is nothing but a number, to make a set of images illegal is to make a number illegal.
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Send the party vans at his home!
The only guys to use this kind of argument for legalizing child porn are the pedos or deeply amoral persons, much like Tom Martin
If he meant hentai he'd have made the distinction between drawn/animated/sketched fantasies and child porn.
He said - and meant - actual child porn.
I even went and checked it at the source. He does mean child goddamned pornography. With living, breathing, crying, abused children. Makes all kinds of excuses about the distribution of child porn not being the same as the production and tries to convince people that 12 year olds post naked pictures of themselves online all the time and it would be infringing on their rights not to let them do it so it should totally be okay copy those pictures and spread them around as long as they aren't the ones physically abusing them. And a few people even agreed. Fucking Libertarians!
A whole lot of sick bastards out there need the formal introduction to Smacky.
You just argued that everything ever that can be expressed in binary is legal.
If that's the only way you can justify your despicable beliefs to yourself, maybe you should reexamine them. Please do.
So you think that if you digitize a poloroid you have somehow found a loophole, not only in the law but in ethics as well.
You truly need to be removed from society.
Wha.....? That has to be some of the stupidest logic I've ever heard from one of these shitbags, and there's a lot of stupid logic from that camp.
I believe that I speak for everyone here when I say that throwaway147923, and everyone who agrees with him, can all go fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
Way to sidestep the actual issue, throwaway147932. You're still wrong for even coming up with such a half-baked argument. I'm not even going to even try to argue because people like yourself won't listen. Also, to whoever gave you those upvotes to that post on Reddit, I hope the FBI is watching you too.
No, it makes the particular expression of that number in digital form illegal.
What a goddamned stupid argument. I can just imagine this moron giggling when he came up with it.
Please try it in court, though!
Does the TV tropes page for FSTDT have an insane troll logic section? If so, this needs to go in there.
Also, computers do not work that way, you disgusting reprobate.
So it's fine if I go spreading patents and privilleged corporate information around? Like escort service client lists, the schematics for any work in progress, and the secrets to KFC's spices? After all, those can be transmitted as binary information as well. Oh, and all your bank account and credit card numbers should be fair game as well. It's cool as long as I'm not the one who drains your account and runs up your bills, right? You're the one who just gives that shit out, why should you complain when somebody else copies it down for their own use later? While I'm on the subject it's totally not stealing from you if I pick the lock to your front door so several other people can take everything that isn't nailed down, drive their getaway vehicle, act as their fence, and cherry pick the belongings they stole from you as my payment. After all, I may have the proceeds of crimes committed against you and aided the culprits before, during, and after but I never personally set foot in your house or physically removed them from your person which means I haven't done a thing to you.
How's your logic sounding now?
Child porn ought to be illegal, that's the only thing here that I agree on. A photo image of a child molestation has to have had a child molestation to make an image of. If no-one bought these things, fewer children would be molested. Buyers and oglers are accomplices both before, under and after the fact.
If you only wants 1’s and 0’s, you could make anime child porn movies, but no, that’s not enough for people like you; you want the molestations.
Wha.. what? That doesn't even make sense. Infinity isn't a number, it's a concept. You're one sick fuck.
*crackling, sparks*
Oh, no! My machinery, it's reacting to the stupid! I have to save it!
OOC: Somebody send this to TV Tropes, now!
So if your bank zeroed out your accounts and deleted your money there would be nothing illegal about that? I mean, it's not actual money in paper bills in your hand. It's just numbers in a computer, right?
Should the number 1 be illegal?
Nope.
the number 1e10000?
>using capital-E notation
>writing e instead of E
>not just writing 10104 like a civilized person
infinity?
Not a number.
What about all the numbers in between?
Still nope.
If you answered no, congratulations, you just agreed child porn should be legal.
Error 404, logic not found. These fools will go to any length to justify their sick perversions.
An image is nothing but a number, to make a set of images illegal is to make a number illegal.
An image is a matrix whose elements are vectors. And no, even if it was true that an image was a 'set of numbers' this twisted pretzel logic would still be wrong, oh so very wrong.
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His social security number, name, and address are just numbers on a hard drive somewhere. He should give them to me because, after all, they are just numbers.
Confused?
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