A new petition calling for the shut-down of Pornhub and the arrests of its owners has leaped onto Change.org. It cites recent cases of girls kidnapped and forced to star in videos that were then uploaded to the site, one of whom was only 15.
This is excellent, I love seeing Christians actually call for destruction of evil institutions, rather than towing the libertarian 'muh free speech' quip. God's justice is being withheld at the behest of governments world wide, permitting these corporations of degeneracy to operate as if they were but sober businesses. The stars in these videos - male and female - are either willing participants in this evil, and thus should also face justice, or are threatened with all manner of abuses (financial, social, and physical) unless they degrade their bodies for the pleasure of their overlords.
But whenever I see these well-meaning calls for justice from Christians, especially on grave issues like pornography and abortion, I always stop and think, what do they conceive as justice?
Is it a fine and a shut down of the business? That's nice, but the persons themselves are not punished. They walk out of the court in clean suits and unblemished skin. They can just start a new life. Hell, they might even consider entering underground prostitution and dark web pornography. Either way, they can start their lives again as a regular person (assuming their wealth is even significantly hit), while their victims suffer still.
Prison time? Frankly, I despise the idea of prison as "justice". It's a glorified naughty corner, with all necessities and even some luxuries provided for those who destroyed lives, and those who even ended them. Ironically, many higher level prisons also perpetuate injustice, with the thriving of prison rape, assaults, and even murders. And what punishments result from doing such in prison? A few more years in the naughty corner maybe, perhaps in solitary confinement.
How often to people consider the principles of Hebrew law? Harsh as they appear, legal principles like lex talionis (see Leviticus 24:17 - 22) actually express a greater value of human lives than modern, supposedly "humane" laws. To murder a man was to forfeit your own life, to injure a man was to see yourself injured in like manner. What, then, is a fitting punishment for wealthy corporate oligarchs who build and perpetuate an entire industry of mass injury, sexual abuse, and death? A fine? A few years in the naughty corner?
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