1. Virtual child pornography\" is the term given to video depictions of child-ch

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1. Virtual child pornography" is the term given to video depictions of child-child or child-adult sexual activity in which the "participants are not actual children but realistic computer-generated images of chil- dren. The Federal Child Pornography Prevention Act banned this kind of pornography, but in April 2002 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the ban unconstitutional. (The Court upheld the section of the law that bans por- nographic depictions of actual children, however.) Evaluate virtual child pornography from an ethical standpoint.

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1.Virtual child pornography according to the deontological ethics of Kant is the objectification of children and adult. This involves the use of the objectified individual as a tool for another’s sexual purposes. Thus according to him, this is not the ethical way of gaining pleasures in life.

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