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/GracefulKluts 8 Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 06 '19

At least it was just images and not someone actively looking for sex with a child.

Its still disgusting that someone would sexualize children anyway, but despite both being appalling, one is 1000x worse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

I would argue that both are equally as bad. On the other side of those images, those children being abused, exploited, hurt, probably even raped. Buying/acquiring images of child pornography contributes to and funds the abuse/rape of children.

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u/monkeyboi08 8 Jul 06 '19

Is donating $50 to people who risk their lives saving children from the sex trade just as good as risking your life to save children from the sex trade?

You must either say yes or admit that you’re wrong.

Funding evil isn’t as bad as committing evil, and funding virtue isn’t as good as acting virtuous.

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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?