[Antoninus]

If not for porn, this man would doubtless have been a minister or Fortune 500 CEO.

If not for easy access to porn in this library, a little girl might not be in critical condition, scarred for the rest of her life.

[general_re]

If not for easy access to porn in this library, a little girl might not be in critical condition, scarred for the rest of her life.

We should let him go, in that case - obviously, it's the porn's fault, not his.

[Deliberator]

If not for easy access to porn in this library, a little girl might not be in critical condition, scarred for the rest of her life.

Certainly public monies should not be spent to provide free porn to a largely deranged subpopulation.

[adam_az]

"If not for easy access to porn in this library, a little girl might not be in critical condition, scarred for the rest of her life."

I think you are substituting another symptom of his being already deranged rather than the cause. Don't you think he would be just as dangerous without internet access?

[ought-six]

"If not for easy access to porn in this library, a little girl might not be in critical condition, scarred for the rest of her life."

This guy had a history of violence against kids. Porn had nothing to do with it. The guy was a violent lunatic no matter what he accessed on the computer. I'm sure he had breakfast that day, too, but I'm not about to say there's a link between breakfast and assault. It's too easy to scapegoat something you don't like, and that is the tactic of bigots. I have no problem with hanging this guy. But you'll have to come up with something more than rank emotion to asociate his computer habits with his assault (unless he was accessing a "how-to" website for information on how to assault kids).