nobody thinks fictional children are real. and nobody who cares about fictional child porn is totally complacent about child porn irl.

but the argument is about normalization. its about how fictional child porn normalizes pedophilia and can be used to groom children. there are countless people who have discussed how immoral content was exposed to them and groomed them into abusive relationships. its a reason why many of these people who preach about “drawings not affecting reality” end up being outed as pedophiles and predators.

if fictional children being sexualized does not matter because they arent real, then why do you get angry when a gay character is killed off? why do you care when a show treats its characters of color poorly? or when a female character is treated worse than the male character? they’re all fictional right?

you cant apply your logic to one thing and then treat something else like it exists in a vacuum because it makes you uncomfortable to confront your very weird and very creepy fetishes.