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very good point, but paedophilia isn't just a mental illness or fetish or whatever, and i find the very notion insulting. where i come from paedophiles are the scum of the Earth because they are bad fucking people. paedophilia shouldn't be taken lightly and there will never be a day where they're deemed poor, misunderstood souls. if you get enjoyment out of an action which is completely wrong, you don't deserve sympathy.
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The thing is, you're actually making your own definitions for things that already have definitions. Paedophilia
is a psychiatric disorder. It
is a fetish. You don't ever have to act on it to be one. You can't help the way your brain is wired, as other people have said (and you seem to have just ignored them so far so I'm probably wasting my time here), you can't lock someone up for a crime they haven't committed. It also doesn't help that the media brands every child molester as a paedophile when that's not the case. For example, a child molester may commit such crimes because of an absence of adult partners plus existing psychosis. Ian Brady wouldn't necessarily be considered a paedophile though he was definitely a child molester.
That's not to say I think paedophiles should just be ignored or left to their own devices. I honestly think that for the good of society, self-confessed paedophiles should be monitored (without invading their privacy so much that life becomes stressful) whilst at the same time, the correct psychological/ medical circles are informed so that they might try and administer help to try and correct their illness.
Convicted paedophiles that have committed acts of child molestation should be sent to prison and never let back out into the public. They're too dangerous to be re-introduced into society because our medical understanding of the disorder isn't yet refined to the stage that we can 'cure' it. I also believe that scientists should be able to conduct
humane tests on these criminals for the purpose of finding the reasons as to why these people have a disposition for children in the hope that they can find a cure.