First of all, I have to inform everyone of a potential delay in new content. It shouldn't be too long so don't worry: Hopefully only a few days or at most two weeks. I had some things planned for the next couple of days, however I'm currently not in a state to work on them and present them. I apologize and I hope you understand. Expect those updates in the second half of this month none the less!
Now for the reason. Yesterday I was involved in something I would classify as a rare occurrence: Internet drama that managed to make me physically sick, to the point where I had some issues sleeping and even now slightly feel like throwing up. When I didn't think humans could be capable of even more horrible things, the world (as usual) provided. I will not give names here as I don't wish to cause trouble to any of the people involved, but I will explain what happened otherwise:
I follow a few furry artists who I watch on FA over on Twitter, meaning I see their posts in my news feed which I now check rather often. Last night I saw a post from one artist addressing another artist who he's recently done a collaboration with. Information was leaked by a third party that this other artist might have been using child porn as reference for his artwork... something that wasn't even confirmed at the time, and was later clarified to be a huge exaggeration. The artist who made the post was expressing their discomfort in having associated with such a person, whereas everyone else in the comments began blasting away at this other artist. I do not take kindly to that sort of attitude especially if I don't believe it's perfectly justified, so I interfered and posted a few replies... this was all that was needed for me to be turned into the next target.
I've deemed the behavior and ideas expressed by some of the people commenting as worthy of demons from hell... because that is seriously the only thing I could associate this degree of hatred and insanity with. I was accused of indirectly supporting the child porn industry, called a child molester lover, cussed at in a variety of shapes and forms, then blocked by people to whom I didn't even do anything wrong and might have even known. My crime? Daring to suggest that people might not be despicable monsters for simply accessing an image off some dark corner of the internet... be it something as controversial as child pornography, granted they had nothing to do with the photo existing. A collage of fundamentally flawed logic followed suit: I was lectured on how what you enjoy in the privacy of your own home without anyone ever knowing can magically cause a crime outside of your home, how refusing to gang up on this person meant that I'm supporting child molesters and am like them, proudly told of how US law can put people in prison for simply laying eyes on a photo, or how drawing fictional artwork should be considered a crime because even that is "normalizing" it. I could literally only compare the things I've heard to the Christian inquisition, back when priests would round up witches and wizards from the woods and burn them at the stake under accusations of being heretics and worshiping Satan... today we're ready to send people to Mars and this shit happens worse than it did back then!
My points were very rational and simple: If for instance I downloaded a video of ISIS beheading a journalist, for whatever stupid reason I'd ever want to watch such a thing (I know some people do it to get a high similarly to watching horror films), I would not be accused of "supporting terrorism" nor would me drawing it mean I'm "normalizing terrorism"... so why is underage porn so special? On the aspect of fiction, I further explained that if this line of thought was expanded, a lot of things would be seen as crimes: Many furry artists would be classified as people who support bestiality, or vore artists would be labeled as people who support sexual cannibalism... why not them? I asked how someone simply being attracted to children, as creepy as I know that is in real life, is automatically a monster who doesn't even deserve to be treated like a person any more, even if they would never imagine harming actual kids in practice! No one could provide a single real argument, they all kept saying "this is different because it's different"... it's literally as if they were on drugs, under hypnosis, or living in a world inside their heads (which they proceeded to accuse me of doing).
Now my problem isn't that a few people think like this, I'd deal with it if that were the case. It's the scale and magnitude this sort of thing can reach: The same attitude was manifested even by folks whom I know aren't bad people, some who even turned against me simply for refusing to think like them! What makes it all the more scary though is that this can't be treated as a mere matter of opinion and discussed like other things at all, because those people act like brainwashed fanatics under some spell making real discussion virtually impossible... the subject is like a magic kill-switch that causes them to maul each other the moment you flip it! If the topic of kid porn can cause them to go like this, I don't see why other things (harmless or not) couldn't, granted I cannot trust the judgment of such beings any longer... I can expect that one day, me or someone I know might easily be assaulted in the streets altogether, all because something we said or thought somehow broke the emotional balance of the apes.
I shouldn't need to iterate that I will never support anything that is clearly, undoubtedly, irrevocably harmful to another person (rape, murder, etc). I will however refuse to judge by association, and will not condemn or discriminate anyone for merely thinking or watching or enjoying things, as long as the act doesn't directly cause harm to others! This is what they cannot understand: If they fear something, anyone who's even watched it or made a drawing about it or refuses to hate over it should be treated as a criminal, in order to set an example or rewrite normality! This way of thinking is beyond dangerous, it's how the Nazis and terrorists (a similarly complex subject) grow, and I will fight this sort of thing for as long as I'm cursed to live in this piece of crap world! To be fair, after what I've seen last night, I'm now more willing to believe that even actual pedophiles (excluding real abductors or molesters of course) aren't even bad people nor someone you should be scared of at all, just a sexual minority that's misunderstood and terrorized like gays were in the 70's... give me one good reason to think otherwise, because I no longer have one.
I don't know who will even understand my view at all, nor do I know who will turn on me over this or not... at this point though I don't even have the energy to wonder. I've tried fighting various forms of tyranny and madness and broken mentalities over the last years, because I found them dangerous or repressive or frankly ridiculous. It's sad what a target the mere act of doing so can paint on you... all because you want everyone to have the right to be happy as much as possible. I will continue it however, the hate of this world will not stop me... I just wish I didn't have to be seen as some demon over it by the mindless ones, and go through difficult experiences every day (more or less) just to oppose wrongful persecutions or broken views ingrained within society.
