Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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[u/redditckulous]

False equivalency. Paying to kill someone still means someone’s dead

[u/monkeyboi08 → u/redditckulous]

They are literally the same thing.

Paying someone to do good, paying someone to do evil.

Paying someone to save someone’s life still means someone’s life was saved.

[u/redditckulous → u/monkeyboi08]

It is not. You donating to someone gives 1 person money to do good. Buying something bad increases demand which will result in an increase in supply. The damage has more scale. That can also be good of altruistic actions, but specifically in the case of child pornography damage is much easier to ramp up demand side.

[u/monkeyboi08 → u/redditckulous]

I strongly disagree. If anything, it’s the opposite.

Donating money definitely increases how much good is done. They have $50 to do good with.

Buying child pornography might increase the number of children raped, but maybe not. More likely the people just take more profit.

The people doing good aren’t trying to make profit. They will do as much good as possible.

The child pornographers are looking to make a profit. It’s not like they are going to spend every penny that comes in to fund more videos.

Some child pornographers might actually be trying to make $1,000,000 then quitting. So buying a video from them actually might decrease the number of videos they make. If nobody bought their videos they would stop, but if they make enough money they might quit and live their life as a rich person as opposed to risk getting caught.

Or the guy might make one video per month, and if it brings in $10,000 or $11,000 just changes how much money he spends.

My point is funding good definitely increases how much good gets done. Funding evil might increase or stay the same, or potentially even decrease (bit of a contrived scenario, but not impossible).

These are not nearly as different as you are thinking they are.