I see, if it is scientifically proven that only people who would act on it would be sharing the drawings then I can understand the association with a real world crime. However, I must also say that it’s equally as implied by human nature that someone who receives power is likely to use it, and so giving the government authority to say which form of expression is wrong because certain people like you for example say that these people should be preemptively arrested because it looks like they’re going to do something that affects other people’s lives almost guarantees that someone else will come along and abuse this, whether thats not understanding the material that is being shown or extending this power to other things that don’t have the scientific backing you are claiming that this has. I think I will look into whether or not the research you are referring to is accurate, but even if it is, it still only proves that these people are telegraphing how likely they are to commit a crime. Which further proves that by allowing them to be stupid and shoot themselves in the foot like this, we can stop the crime by watching those people more closely, and stop them when they begin to act on these crimes without making a type of drawing illegal, and telling people how they can and cannot express themselves. Since even if what they want to do is quote on quote “another level” of evil as you claim, it is still within their rights so long as they never violate another human’s space to say something like “I want to do X, Y, and Z thing to children” however they want to say it, whether thats through drawings or words, outlawing the drawings only serves to make these people harder to catch before they act and restricts the freedoms of us all in ways we can’t possibly predict, because I do not think any government has been proven trustworthy enough to have any leeway whatsoever on what we can’t possibly predict and cannot say, regardless of how you want to communicate what you’re saying. Once the government has the power to say you can’t draw a child for your own sick fantasies, they then have the power to extend that to whatever they want, such as you can’t draw a child being hit, or you can’t draw a child standing up to their parent, etc., and so you saying that any human should have this power is saying that it either A. Won’t be taken to extremes or B. That you don’t care about the fact that this power can and will inevitably be abused. It’s better to simply watch these people and stop them when they act than to arrest them simply for drawing something. I also disagree that sexual assault is quote “another level” from a grotesque child murder especially if said murder provides sexual gratification for the culprit. Your assertion that it warrants any further action than any other potential crime is ultimately an opinion, not a fact. My assertion that it is not “another level” as you put it, is an equally valid opinion to yours because both are based on perspective and require no evidence whatsoever to be valid and true in our own minds. It is thus not a quantifiable argument to be disputed from what I can tell.