It's skin off my nose because it endangers society and children. If you punish armed robbery more than murder, you'll see more murders. There is supposed to be a proportionality in the justice system, not only to protect the accused but also to protect society. In a criminal knows he'll get 100 years for armed robbery and only 5 for murder, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize you'll have a lot more dead people. Obviously you want neither, but you want to prevent murders more.
I'm sorry I said you were stupid, I should have said "God your comment is stupid". I apologize.
The problem is that if Westerfield is convicted, he's going to end up on either death row or doing life without parole. The persons who were charged will probably do little time, some minimal probation and a fine, via plea bargains. Within a short time, they'll be right back at it. That's the proportionality. The people who aren't charged will go somewhere else on line for their child porn. The deterrance factor is the publicity surrounding the cases, not the charges themselves. If I remember the numbers correctly, the Justice Dept. has charged somewhere around 100 or so people out of 2,000 people, a very small percentage of those who have actually been accused of possession of child porn. They've scattered around the indictments to different states, of course, but someone who is involved with this child porn ring plays the odds, they're not even going to get charged.