Why would something have to be the &#x27;worst crime on the internet&#x27; to be a crime anyway? Just like shoplifting is a crime so is murder. Shoplifting clearly isn&#x27;t the &#x27;worst crime&#x27; in society, but that&#x27;s not a reason why we should not put a stop to it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what you&#x27;re getting at with all this &#x27;oh but childporn isn&#x27;t so bad&#x27;, it&#x27;s almost as if for some reason you feel this is a subject that needs a strong defense without showing why you feel this is the case.<p>I&#x27;m not going to say &#x27;rape isn&#x27;t the worst crime so let&#x27;s give rapists a pass&#x27; either, absent a motive I can&#x27;t find myself to side with the criminals in this case.<p>Though I very much would like the law enforcement officers to stick to the legal side of the line when it comes to pursuing these people simply because I believe that is how the law should work. If that gets lost then we&#x27;re all complicit in the crimes done in our name and I&#x27;d prefer for society to lose out on getting a few criminals caught if that means we get to keep the moral high ground. That&#x27;s a controversial point with some but it matters to me.<p>You seem to have given the subject a lot more thought than I ever would, but then again I don&#x27;t have much reasons to think really hard about what the implications of child pornography would be. My contact with it has been limited to passing it on to law enforcement when detected with as much documentation as I could find on whoever was spreading it around and from that perspective I have very little love for child pornographers no matter what the source of their material and no matter whether or not in your were not harmed because they can&#x27;t be identified. That&#x27;s a very very thin bit of ice you&#x27;re skating on because it all rests on what <i>you</i> feel is the truth. Such a personal perspective at odds with the law and with what society generally believes to be normal can lead to a lot of trouble.<p>In other words, those people that have vast collections of nude pictures of other peoples children will not have to count on my sympathy if they start brandishing excuses like the ones you listed.