r/news • u/MIngmire • Jan 09 '18

Dad turns in teenage son after finding child pornography on cell phone

http://www.kmov.com/story/37226711/dad-turns-in-teenage-son-after-finding-inappropriate-pictures-on-phone
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u/dont_take_pills Jan 10 '18

The horrible cases are basically something almost none of us would EVER do.

The regular ones? Most of us have done or come close to doing.

I don't understand why /u/hairy_balloon_knot is so confused that generally speaking people conflate things that relate to them the most.

Look at reddit as a glaring example of that. During the primaries, a huge focus was given towards student loans and financial aid.

But when it came to mainstream news organizations and debates, it was basically a footnote of the conversation.

Because Reddit in general is young and attempting or going through college, or just graduated with it and dealing with it. That's not the majority of Americans concerns, it's the majority of the represented group on Reddits.

So yeah. People care about how they can fit themselves into a story more than they could imagine being in a situation where they are photographing a naked two year old and trying to sell the pictures.

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u/Secretss Jan 10 '18

I think it’s not so much confusing to him as he is trying to drive a point that Reddit is overwhelmingly selfish/narcissistic in automatically first looking inwards and trying to protect/defend themselves than looking outwards to victims of actual crimes. Yes it is easily understood human nature but that doesn’t mean it’s not deplorable human nature. People are pretty damn quick to ask “could that have been a false positive?!” - this sort of knee-jerk pseudo-denial can be hurtful - when false positives are rare in reality.

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u/GTS250 Jan 10 '18

I feel like that's not a bad thing. Jumping to "guilty" before we can make a well informed decision, not in the moment with information available in the 24 hour news cycle, feels hasty and ill concieved.

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u/Secretss Jan 10 '18

True, true. Innocence until proven guilty!

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u/Orisara Jan 10 '18

I was 14 when webcams became a thing.

Glad that computer is probably scrap by now.