As always, your thinking captures the complexity of the issue and interestingly, in exactly they ways that Vitalik's did not. Political parties have in many ways become labels that encompass ways of living or value systems and you're right that most people can't fit the entirety of who they are within those labels nor should they. I think the essence of what's important here is to THINK. Think beyond systems, labels, identities and anything and everything else! If Vitalik was thinking even just for a minute about what he actually was implying there about child porn and a drop of imagination for someone else's experiences (children), I'm fairly sure he wouldn't have said it. He was probably reaching for an example and that one came to him, however he picked one of the true evils of the world and as you say, this does show a absence of empathy and in my opinion also a lack of intelligence. Anyway, thanks for the thoughtful post,