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> it should be illegal to push people to commit crimes.

Ahhh, so Snoop Dogg's music should be illegal, then? Since it's supporting the consumption of Marijuana, a drug banned at the federal level in the US.

Or on a more serious note, should encouraging civil disobedience during the civil rights era have been illegal?

That is a stupidly broad statement, and it has consequences that I don't think you'd like.

> We could design strongly addictive porn that would significantly increase the market for production of actual child abuse.

We could also do it with some future form of ML-assisted CGI - which is also currently illegal in the states. I'd say that's a pretty close substitute good for the kind of CP that requires hurting kids.

But really, I don't think the number of people willing to commit a major felony on camera and distribute the video would go up significantly if the end product wasn't illegal to possess. I may have too high an estimation of how intelligent people are...



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