The sickos you mention have access to their own imagination for imagining these acts. This type of "virtual sex" is obviously not adequate because they are going to the web to satiate the desire. It will provide a higher degree of "realism" for them.
Thus we have a precedence of abandoning one level of adult-child sex for a more realistic version.
We have an obviously complex system (pervert's desire).
We have a perturbation (new access to depictions of adult-child sex)
It's highly likely the system will diverge. He will need more. Reality is the best virtual reality.
Some slopes are slippery. To deny that, is a logical fallacy in itself.
So? Satisfying the desire virtually is 100% better than not satisfying the desire until innocent children become injured in the process.
Thus we have a precedence of abandoning one level of adult-child sex for a more realistic version.
No, we have a precedence of abandoning adult-child sex for a substitution that is NOT adult-child sex.
It's highly likely the system will diverge. He will need more. Reality is the best virtual reality.
So I suppose you support a ban on simulated violence in movies and video games, including assault/battery, murder, rape, etc.? Or do you see these issues differently simply because of the lack of "virtual children"?
Will someone who plays a video game that depicts murder automatically be more prone to actually murdering someone? Not necessarily. In fact, I've "killed" thousands of "people" during my lifetime of video game play. I have yet to kill an actual person.
Some slopes are slippery. To deny that, is a logical fallacy in itself.
You're right about that. Making something illegal simply because it looks like something else is indeed a very slippery slope. Already, the thumb-and-forefinger in the shape of a gun is a violation of many school "No Tolerance" policies. That is just as absurd as a ban on any other type of simulation.