As far as I’m concerned, there’s no need to not “tolerate” something that is legal in the United States. While imperfect historically, when it comes to preserving individual freedoms, it is head and shoulders above all other nations in the world when it comes to preserving freedom of expression today.
That said, I want to address some really bad misinformation I’ve seen several people post. Pornography does not cause people to undertake actions of any kind. Just as consumption of violent entertainment does not cause people to become violent. This isn’t an opinion. This is an observed fact.
When you look at the possessions of someone who has been convicted of a crime, and find “entertainment” products related to that crime, this does not show a cause and effect relationship. It is a basic and, frankly speaking, idiotic logical fallacy to think such a relationship does exist. People who commit violent crimes are people who enjoy violence. They will have violent media in their possession for the same reason. It’s a common cause scenario - predisposition to violence creates a likelihood of consuming violent media and perpetrating violence.
Same scenario applies when talking about sex crimes. Someone convicted of rape is someone predisposed to sexual violence. It’s likely that this predisposition will cause said person to also be in possession of rape-base pornography, whether fictional or real. There’s no causal relationship between the consumption of that media and the crime. There’s a common cause shared between the two.
And the same applies to sex crimes specifically tied to abnormal psychology such as pedophilia (which is a state of mind, not an action, just like homosexuality). It would be almost unheard of for a person convicted of sexually abusing a pre-pubescent child to not have pornography depicting such behavior. Again, there’s no causal relationship there. It’s a common cause leading to both the possession of such material and the commission of such crimes.
These are basic facts about human psychology which anyone can see from personal experience with just a little thought. Just recall what happened when you were really angry at some point in the past and ended up throwing something, punching a wall, etc. You felt less angry after the outlet. That’s how humans operate - provide an outlet, and the emotional pressure releases. I don’t think I need to explain how this likewise applies to sexual arousal, given the site we’re on.
So when it comes to behaviors we absolutely do not want present in society, allowing a virtual outlet is the correct answer. Some people are going to offend regardless. Most will not offend regardless (i.e. almost none of the people who suffer from pedophilia ever do anything to a child). In between are people balancing on an edge, and if you give them an outlet for their pent-up desires, they’ll avoid doing any actual harm. If you deny them such an outlet, you’ll increase the likelihood of them doing harm.
People arguing against loli or other deviant content have no rational leg to stand on. If no real person was hurt in the production of something, there’s no actual harm - quite the opposite, for the reasons I outline above. If you don’t like a particular kind of content, then just ignore it. If you live in a backwards nation which criminalizes even being exposed to such content (which does not include any first-world nations, hyperbolic claims here notwithstanding), then you’re probably not legally allowed to be here at all. Either go do something else, or get yourself a good VPN.
