Kenshin author charged with child porn

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I mean, 16 is the age of consent in most places and 22 is a young adult. That doesn't make it OK, but worse than someone owning CP? Nah.

DA and spitballing, but one is potentially doing active harm and one is not directly harming anyone. If simply owning the CP is as bad, then by that logic is buying black market drugs even worse than owning CP, because it's propping up cartels? Most people would consider owning CP worse than smoking weed, even though illegal weed is funding criminal gangs who do trafficking, (effectively) rape, stabbings, shootings, harass people etc. A Hollywood star is caught doing cocaine, or owning CP (that they didn't make or have ordered, but is just some CP made like 5 years ago say (fk this thought lol, hope the kid's somewhat ok now, though I'm guessing that's unlikely)) - which is worse? Most, if not pretty much everyone, in Colombia know someone who's been killed, kidnapped, shot or attacked by gangs related to the cocaine trade.

or do people think the owning of CP itself is so bad and worse than giving money to drug gangs, for some reason other than doing harm?