I think the problem there is that, for many years, nobody bothered to explain to him exactly why child porn is bad.
Most people observe that everyone else thinks it’s bad and don’t question it any further. That’s not good enough for Stallman, though, and for good reason: expecting him to unquestioningly bow to peer pressure is an insult to his intelligence.
Someone did eventually explain the problem to Stallman. I don’t know what exactly was explained, but my guess is that Stallman was told that child porn is non-consensual and therefore violates the child’s privacy, similar to how revenge porn violates the subject’s privacy. At any rate, after that discussion took place, Stallman did an about-face on the subject, and is now opposed to child porn like anyone else.
Moral of the story: taboos and peer pressure bad; logic and education good.
Probably just autistic, I mean as far as I know he hasn’t been diagnosed but he’s checking a lot of the boxes. And the way he views the world and basing conclusions on those views make sense to me in that context.
He’s just more rigid and extreme in approaching the world from that frame of mind than most people are. Thus sometimes leading to “bad” takes where his intentions are probably not terrible in the way people think they are.
for observers: please don’t essentially argue possession of child sex abuse material should be legal because otherwise the standard is set for making videos of police committing crimes illegal
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I think the problem there is that, for many years, nobody bothered to explain to him exactly why child porn is bad.
Most people observe that everyone else thinks it’s bad and don’t question it any further. That’s not good enough for Stallman, though, and for good reason: expecting him to unquestioningly bow to peer pressure is an insult to his intelligence.
Someone did eventually explain the problem to Stallman. I don’t know what exactly was explained, but my guess is that Stallman was told that child porn is non-consensual and therefore violates the child’s privacy, similar to how revenge porn violates the subject’s privacy. At any rate, after that discussion took place, Stallman did an about-face on the subject, and is now opposed to child porn like anyone else.
Moral of the story: taboos and peer pressure bad; logic and education good.
Is he a robot? This iseems like a very strange thing to have to explain to a grown-ass man.
Probably just autistic, I mean as far as I know he hasn’t been diagnosed but he’s checking a lot of the boxes. And the way he views the world and basing conclusions on those views make sense to me in that context.
He’s just more rigid and extreme in approaching the world from that frame of mind than most people are. Thus sometimes leading to “bad” takes where his intentions are probably not terrible in the way people think they are.
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Gosh, how would someone ever figure out child abuse is a bad thing?
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for observers: please don’t essentially argue possession of child sex abuse material should be legal because otherwise the standard is set for making videos of police committing crimes illegal
This is an extremely weird comment to make. Are you implying that sexual abuse being wrong needs to be taught explicitly ?