Why do people have so much resentment for child porn users? The only harm they&#x27;re doing is participating in a market in which other participants abuse people. It&#x27;s equivalent to hating drug users for indirectly funding murderous Mexican drug gangs. Sure it&#x27;s a bit bad, but HN commenters seem to be much happier with drug users than child porn users.<p>There&#x27;s also the fact that child-abuse porn is lumped in the same basket as harmless pictures of naked children. The latter in itself it harmless - many parents take photos of their children in the bath, etc. But somehow it transforms from good to worse-than-bad if someone gets sexual pleasure from it.