I commend you in that regard then. I didn't know that about you, and, in the future, I'll work with you in taking down pedophiles. I already work with many other pedo-hunters like Sprate Header and, of course, the administrators of this site.
With the criminalization of pro-pedophilia speech that isn't CSAM, I think it's really an issue of freedom of speech and civil liberties. I am and will always be a civil liberties extremist and an unwavering free speech and First Amendment absolutist. Yes, I hate pedophiles with a burning passion and I will do whatever I feel is necessary to shut them down, but I am not willing to trample on the First Amendment to do so. Freedom of speech is meaningless if it does not protect the speech that we despise the most. The argument that we have to be totalitarian in fighting social ills is a very dangerous one, and it's the same argument used by every single dictatorship in history. Once you start accepting totalitarianism in any way, it keeps expanding further and further. If we can arrest people simply for saying "I am a pedophile", then that sets a precedent whereby the government can begin arresting anyone for any thought crimes. And we all know what that results in.
The current US laws regarding child pornography are more than sufficient, and they don't need to be expanded into the realm of thought crimes. I really don't want to have to defend pedophiles in any way, but, unfortunately, I will have to if the government starts using pedophiles as a justification for chipping away at our constitutional rights. As the H.L. Mencken quote goes: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
I wish that
@slopjak was still here, because he completely agreed with me on this and knew where I was coming from. IDK what
@nagolbud's stance is, but I'll tag him since I know that he's big on civil liberties as well.
