Justice Thomas too forecasted that “technology may evolve to the point where it becomes impossible to enforce actual child pornography laws because the Government cannot prove that certain pornographic images are of real children.” In his view, “if technological advances thwart prosecution of ‘unlawful speech,’ the Government may well have a compelling interest in barring or otherwise regulating some narrow category of ‘lawful speech’ in order to enforce effectively laws against pornography made through the abuse of real children.”
It’s like how people instinctually want to give child rapists the death penalty: it’s counterproductive.
What it leads to is that the child now gets murdered as well, because the guy will try to minimize his chances of getting caught.