Needed to make this a main post for the sake of visibility, but in general, I think reset the clock did a lot more damage than help, because of the fact that people believe that the only reason you could ever be against a certain thing, is because you’re engaging in it yourself, when we know for a fact that isn’t the case.
To be specific, it is very much possible to be against loli/shota porn and not be an IRL predator. People like Ableist forget that, while I’m not against it existing per se, I understand why certain places would ban it altogether, and I would actually like for Ableist or anyone else to actually post the specific places where “governments ban loli/shota porn and waste police resources” where people have actually been arrested for the sole possession of that fictional content, because as much as you say that, I’ve never seen it. Unless that’s like a European thing, I’ve generally never heard of that before.
I just don’t get why some people don’t understand why the average person thinks that someone who jerks off to loli/shota porn isn’t right in the head.
The only problem is that people cannot comprehend the gulf between "this isn't right and you should be shunned and mocked for it" and "this isn't right, so it should be banned."
Because any law or banning of things like "loli/shota" will only be used to crack down and hurt irrelevant and innocent people due to its undefinable and vague nature. The same way that many other "moral code" laws were used in the past, and the way the current law for it is literally "you know it when you see it bro."
People however cannot get over the fact that something they find morally reprehensible (validly) is allowed to exist, without running to Daddy Government to make it go away. Even on the Right. They can't handle it themselves, because often times their arguments are so poorly done they get rolled by fucking weeaboos jerking off. They can't just fucking shun and be cautious of a problem person, that's too much responsibility. They need someone else to rush in and remove that person from society, so they can get that sweet dopamine hit of being super upright and moral person while they have done nothing to actually help a real victim of anything.
Basically, fuck the government, bully coomers.
I find it's the pedophiles that can't distinguish between the two even when it's explicitly said. They'll start whining about how other people want that as if they know that admitting it's pedophilia would bring governmental action even though that's not what I've called for