Is the reason you view it that way due to having anti-anti-porn sentiments?
Suppose instead of a app where a church community can see whether the person who has installed the application has viewed pornography, you instead consider someone who has suffered from alcoholism and is trying to stay away from alcohol, and wishes to be held accountable to others for their decisions.
(Now, of course, one difference between these scenarios is that alcoholism is like, a medical condition? but the analogy is about the type of intervention, not saying that the two scenarios exactly correspond.)
What one might call a "revealed preference" might not be a preference that the person who has it, endorses.
Suppose someone is finding that they keep distracting themself with some diversion (perhaps a videogame) when the course of action they endorse for themself is to complete some other task first. They might turn to their friend, hand them the (e.g.) video game console or whatever, and tell their friend to hold on to it until they've demonstrated to the friend that they've accomplished the task.
Of course, if someone doesn't choose such an arrangement, and it is foisted on them by others, then that can be more questionable,
but the general mechanism of using others, and the judgement of others, to guide one's actions towards what one wants one's future actions to be like, is legitimate, and can be useful.
Suppose instead of a app where a church community can see whether the person who has installed the application has viewed pornography, you instead consider someone who has suffered from alcoholism and is trying to stay away from alcohol, and wishes to be held accountable to others for their decisions.
(Now, of course, one difference between these scenarios is that alcoholism is like, a medical condition? but the analogy is about the type of intervention, not saying that the two scenarios exactly correspond.)
What one might call a "revealed preference" might not be a preference that the person who has it, endorses.
Suppose someone is finding that they keep distracting themself with some diversion (perhaps a videogame) when the course of action they endorse for themself is to complete some other task first. They might turn to their friend, hand them the (e.g.) video game console or whatever, and tell their friend to hold on to it until they've demonstrated to the friend that they've accomplished the task.
Of course, if someone doesn't choose such an arrangement, and it is foisted on them by others, then that can be more questionable,
but the general mechanism of using others, and the judgement of others, to guide one's actions towards what one wants one's future actions to be like, is legitimate, and can be useful.