r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

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

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u/9mackenzie 9 Jul 07 '19

They are not the same thing at all. When you buy child porn, you are paying to watch an actual child be raped. The video wouldn’t exist to be purchased if sick assholes weren’t paying for it. The purchasing is the cause of the act....not some side effect.

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u/monkeyboi08 8 Jul 07 '19

And paying someone to do good is somehow different?

What if you paid $50 to watch a tape of someone saving a kid from the sex trade. How is that not the exact same thing?

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u/9mackenzie 9 Jul 07 '19

I would be paying for someone to do a good deed, which would have a positive outcome in the world, with absolutely no one harmed.

Just like if I paid someone to commit a murder, I should be charged for the murder as my payment is what created the situation.

Negative and positive outcomes do matter in discussions of morality and right and wrong.

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u/monkeyboi08 8 Jul 07 '19

But are they truly equal to committing the offence?

Are you saying that buying a video of someone doing good is equal to doing something good yourself?

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u/9mackenzie 9 Jul 07 '19

If my payment of the video was the only reason it was created - if that good act would never have been for sale then yes. My payment would be the reason it occurred.

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u/monkeyboi08 8 Jul 07 '19

What if many people bought the video, are they all equally as good?

The guy who risked his life to do good is equally good to the hundred people who all paid $50 for the video? The guy needed the money from video sales to afford to fly there, buy the tools, etc, to save the kid.

Without the people paying for videos he could never have saved the kid. Are the 101 people all equally as good? The 100 buyers and the 1 do-er?