Just including a link to Robert Pogson's blog since none was provided in the article: http://pogson.6k.ca/

OK seriously, that argument was awful.

First lets equate this to drink driving. If someone drinks and drives, causes a car accident and then kills the person in that car, then they get convicted with 20 years in prison, lose their job, and lose their license. If another person drinks and drives, but doesn't cause an accident or any deaths but just gets pulled over by a cop, and they get the same punishment, will people just decide they might as well start causing car accidents because potentially they will get the same punishment for the crime? The answer is NO! You know why? Because of the moral consequences and anyone who would do something like that is a psychopath and deserves a sentence anyway. With drink driving however someone who gets pulled over only potentially could have caused an accident and the killing of someone whereas with the pigs that watch child porn they are partly the cause of the making of child porn since it's made for them to download and purchase so they are indirectly involved with the problem. And don't let the word indirectly make you think it's any less serious for them, the only reason I use it is because they don't actually do the raping but they sit by, watch it and enjoy the fact a kid is being tortured and hurt for their pleasure.

So no one is across the street thinking "Hey, I might as well rape the girl in the neighbours house since it's the same punishment as watching it" since if they have this thought in the first place this makes them a sexual predator that would have done it anyway. It's not like they are sitting there all their lives salivating over the watching of child porn, and then just because they hear about a decision that has been handed down in court that equates downloading child porn to actually doing the rape, that their whole mindset will change and they will turn into child rapists. They were potential rapists all along, it's in their mindset, simple as that.

I just can't believe you think watching child porn isn't that bad (And yes by even arguing in favour of the people who do this must disgusting of acts is thinking it's not that bad) don't mind give an awful argument like that. That's just an insult to abused kids and to yourself.