According to some members of the UK Parliament, looking at a small image in a place where others could possibly look at it over your shoulder is legally considered a "public display", equivalent to projecting it on a wall in the street.

Prohibiting thing A, and stretching the terminology to include thing B as well, is morally dishonest. When people who look over your shoulder, or out of the corner of the eye, to see something small that you hold in front of you, you are not "displaying" it. Rather, they are prying.

I am not saying that prying is a great wrong -- only that when you pry, you take on the responsibility for seeing whatever you saw, so you cannot blame that on the person whose affairs you pried into.

Some sexual material (i.e., porn) embodies misogyny or treats women as objects. I have a low opinion of that. But the moral dishonesty I am criticizing would apply to all porn, regardless of the attitudes any given porn work presents.

I have no sympathy for Parish, the Tory MP who might be prosecuted. He is a Tory! As a member of Parliament in the governing party, he shares responsibility for all government policies, and so many of them are cruel.

The Tories have done truly horrible things in recent years -- starving the poor, freezing the poor, undermining the National Health Service, deporting people because their parents didn't get certain documents 50 years ago, making the disabled prove their disability to someone unqualified while disregarding doctors' reports, imposing harsh punishments on protesters trying to save the ecosphere, encouraging fossil fuels over renewable energy, and more. These wrongs have harmed millions of Britons already and could easily harm tens of millions of them in the future. These are the substantial reasons to condemn Parish. I have listed only the few I could immediately remember; there are many more.

Thus, Parish's resignation, in and of itself, is a good thing. But achieving something politically beneficial through unjust means can do more harm than good, through collateral damage to everyone. This moral dishonesty, if it prevails, will not be limited to Tories. So their guilt for unrelated wrongs, even enormous wrongs, cannot excuse it.