Providing essay writing services to students is more unethical than children viewing pornography of their own free will
By
Chronos Tachyon
on May 28, 2007
As requested by Packers.
As I explained, my "disagree" vote on Allan's claim was due to the presence of the word "peddling". While I agree that it's highly unethical for an adult to advertise or knowingly sell pornography to a child, I don't see an issue with children obtaining pornography in a context where an adult isn't using it to manipulate them.
I mean, hell, I'm sure I wasn't the only teenager whose first instinct upon discovering Usenet was to search for porn, and I turned out OK. Even though Usenet lacks even a silly "I am over 18" check-box, I don't see anything unethical with either the existence of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* or with the vast majority of people who post pictures there.
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The ethical matters would be in the hands of the adults who could have prevented access to pornography. For instance, by installing filtering software on a computer, or locking up their own pornography stashes.