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I didn't say merit (or consent, though I assume that one's a typo), I said artistic intent. Which every creative work by definition has. And I don't consider CSAM to be a creative work. It's just abuse, created opportunisticly with no real artistic or creative consideration.
Also, there is nothing ethically wrong with porn in a vacuum, so categorising this material as a sub-category of something that isn't inherently ethically wrong in my opinion makes it a bad term. The term CSAM clearly and strictly delineates it from consensual porn.
Ah yes. The Acronym with MORE common definitions somehow causes less confusion. That makes perfect sense. Of course. That explains why so many people in this thread were confused by it. Oh no wait. They weren't.
You're the one who got upset enough about me using a common abbreviation, that no one in the thread was remotely confused by, to kick off this entire shit. You decided you needed to pedantically comment on this. I'm simply defending myself from your pedantic grammar nazi shit.