Let us Discuss the Morality of #TheFappening

let me say stealing the pics and distributing it is fricked up, and i neither fapped to,nor posted/shared/saved any of the pics

however, i've lived almost half my life in a world where this is to be expected. even in a pre-facebook and texting world, when the world wasn't quite so connected, i still refused to take/send nude pics because i knew what would happen. this was 18 year old SFP, before the world at large had seen any of this sort of thing. today there is no excuse for ignorance. this shite has been going on since the late fricking 90s.

the only reason this had any novelty was due to the fact that these persons rely on their sexuality and looks for fame. they bred the monster that led to the market that created the demand for these pics, and they have directly benefited from that market.

now, this doesn't justify the stealing-leaking in any way, but when this is being characterized as legitimate sexual assault (see above tweet, or go look up lea dunham's idiotic response), you've destroyed any validity of your argument. just because something terrible happened doesn't mean that you have to turn it into the most terrible behavior within the spectrum of the violation. that does nothing except create a strawman AND degrade those who actually do suffer from an actual sexual assault

i get the feeling that these liberal-progressives take up this line of argument because they understand that having a discussion on the issue will be worthless, so they create the WORST.SCENARIO.EVER. to compare the behavior to (in this case, sexual assault). lena dunham, especially, came off as a complete dreaming idiot, wishing we lived in a world where she can become famous and rich for her idea of "talent" while nobody would ever look at the nudes of another without explicit permission. and since she can't live in this world, she will do whatever she has to (including degrade actual victims of horrible behaviors) to shame people into thinking as she thinks. shame is the tool of those who don't wish to allow humans to develop.

this is a direct quote from reddit that sums up a very good argument:

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These people are all adults. They did something stupid (letting the cloud acquire the photos rather than storing them locally only). They should embrace it the way a proud few have. The ones going "yeah... Oops, well... Enjoy!!" Are getting RESPECT. The ones crying and denying are the ones getting plastered all over.

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i've even see fricking idiots trying to turn this into a #MalePrivilege argument, because all the celebs released (except Verlander) were males. this is a classic example of liberal-progressives ignoring reality (female nudity is much more valuable than male nudity, especially with regard to celebrity) and pointing their fingers at the wrong issue (the right issue = celebrity)

here are some legit tweets on the situation: