Yeah, child porn is bad, but the latter is almost more significant to me in this case. I’m willing to forgive almost anything, but if you lie to me to make me stick my own neck out, well, that’s a big, big problem.
I’ve known somebody brought up on similar (but not quite as overwhelming) charges. My belief is that he wasn’t a pedophile nearly as much as he was obsessed with taboo information. He wasn’t playing vigilante and didn’t claim to be, but I think he was fascination by child porn, not children. Still…not good.