I've been a victim of revenge p*rn, AMA

I'm convinced Avril Lavigne is a vampire, she never actually did grow up. She looks as good now as she did years ago. Shame I can't say the same about her music.

I can't stand this attitude myself, I hate the idea of more laws being passed on us because people are morons. We lose freedom because they can't live properly. These are the same people who'll sit around on their arse until they're like 28 then start moaning how unfair society is when they see others their age actually taking their life into their own hands.

It wasn't polished, I couldn't word it well enough. You get the intention behind it though

Well, you called people who send nudes sluts and you called people who receive nudes perverts. That suggests a deal of antipathy here and came off to me as slightly bitter.

And saying that people who send nudes are sluts does not strike me as an argument, so I am somewhat lost as to what I should rebut?

If you just didn't understand my argument, all you had to do was ask me to expand or reword the post. The main argument is that these girls should own their actions. No one forced them to post nudes. The fact that they were willing to do so with somebody who is clearly not so connected with them as to beam them to the world, is telling to me.

They can cry about it all they like, but at the end of the day: they sent the photos and left the bloke. Good job, I guess?

You took longer than 10 minutes to think of a comeback. You lose. Good day, sir.

No you wouldn't tory boy don't lie. I know you kind. The kind that thinks everyone on benefits is low class scum who are just too lazy to work. The left will be back in power again, just you wait and see tory boy.

as the title says

I'm yet to hear a good argument against my contention that your comments about empathy are a shame tactic, since they have no universal basis. Am I to conclude that you agree, given this answer?

So you're saying that I'm wrong to accuse her of lacking empathy?

Since she agrees that its an immoral thing to do, yes. But that's not what I asked. You're attempting to put me on the back foot to avoid answering a difficult question - one that inevitably will have to end in you conceding that your comments were trying to shame somebody on the forum. After you talked about bullying, anxiety, etc. earlier I find this very hypocritical. Don't you agree?

Since she agrees that its an immoral thing to do, yes. But that's not what I asked. You're attempting to put me on the back foot to avoid answering a difficult question - one that inevitably will have to end in you conceding that your comments were trying to shame somebody on the forum. After you talked about bullying, anxiety, etc. earlier I find this very hypocritical. Don't you agree?

OP is not a victim and the 'distibutor' (rofl, is he the head of Sony Pictures?) should not be punished as OP has sent him those pictures it is now his property and he is free to share it with whomever he likes.

Decide for yourself whether that shows a lack of empathy.

I'm pretty sure if can be made to fall under some kind of sexual harassment law etc. That dude that ran a revenge porn site in america got done for it recently.

I don't really want to live in your crappy world where all my interactions with other humans has to be a like a business transaction and I have to sigh a contract and everything is someone's property.

I don;t normally sue this phrase but this is the height of victim blaming :/ Relationships with people inherent involve sharing personal stuff, that includes photos. You could be in a relationship you think it for the long run then it all goes to **** and your ex becomes a massive dick and uploads sex tapes you made onto the internet. I don;t see why we shouldn't be able to punish knob heads who do that.

I earlier stated that appealing to empathy is silly:

For those who lack empathy it serves as nothing more than an empty statement and for those who do have empathy it's clearly wrong and an attempt to shame somebody.Law shouldn't be empathetic. It should be mutually beneficial. I'd argue that a ban on revenge porn is clearly mutually beneficial (assuming you also would like to send nude photographs and them not go public) and this is a good argument. "It's wrong" or "think about the person you're trying to hurt" is not.

Pretty sure she only stated that she knew it was objectively wrong, her personal opinion is that of



Decide for yourself whether that shows a lack of empathy.

No, I have clearly stated that my personal opinion is that it is wrong of OP's ex to publish her nudes, I even called him the scum of the Earth so again, the lack of reading skills is astonishing.

I just have enough brain cells to realize that just because something is morally wrong doesn't mean that it should be illegal, just like cheating on your girlfriend isn't illegal either despite the fact that it is a wrong thing to do. You can't just ban everything because it's 'wrong'. Most of you in here completely lack common sense and just spout emotional bull**** with no logical basis.

You contradict yourself too much, frankly.

No, you just aren't bright enough to understand complex issues, frankly.

Yeah, I read that before.

It's not an appeal or an argument, most likely, it's just an emotional response to what Driftaway was saying. Although I agree that this leads to messy and pointless debates, I think she's already got the message that you dislike guilt-tripping.

Right. You do realise continually trying to insult me only makes you look worse, not that you'd care.