It is understandable that you would be angry at them since children are quite precious and abusing them in such a way is disgusting. However, they cannot help it. They have a mental disorder and the same way a schizophrenic person cannot look past their delusions those people can't look past their attraction towards children.mjc0961 said:Fuck their situation. Even if they didn't make it, they still used it rather than calling the police as soon as they found it so that less kids would be hurt in the future. I have no pity for these 72 people, my sympathies will be with the real victims of this (the children).
Do not be mistaken, I am all for punishing those who subject children to this form of abuse. However, those who watch it have no blame at all. They have a mental illness and they need help, not punishment. Punishment will not deter them from looking at child porn in the future and punishment will not deter them from pursuing those urges even further than just looking at videos.
I'm not saying they're victims, I'm saying they're mentally ill. They need professional help, someone who can teach them how to resist those urges. A person with a mental illness will do things that seem illogical to healthy individuals. Still, show some compassion. The sick people who abused those children deserve to be in some way rehabilitated or if not possible punished but those who watched the videos deserve to be helped. They did not think logically and neither did they act knowingly. Remember, they suffer from a mental illness. Their actions are not their own and cannot be considered their own.