On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:59:43AM +0900, Sam Joseph wrote:
> Think about the other example in my previous mail. If you send an image
> of me being brutally raped to somebody who gets off on looking at that
> kind of thing, then you are hurting me. Maybe you can say that I
> shouldn't care, but you can't tell me that you are not hurting me.
Of course, talking about child pornography is always emotive, and
talking about it in clinical terms is always dangerous but: Firstly, the
crime is the rape, not the photograph. Of course, the photograph may
serve as a reminder of the rape, but it is the rape that has and is
continuing to hurt you. There is do direct causal link between one
person transferring the photograph to another who wishes to receive it,
and your hurt.
> What happens to my right to not have those kinds of images of myself
> shown to other people?
In most countries I am aware of, there is no such right.
> Think about the situation where someone gets images of me without my
> permission, and distributes them ...
In that case, it is obtaining the images that is wrong, not their
distribution.
Ian.
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