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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.
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so paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder/fetish. does that make it okay? no it doesn't. does admitting it but never actually doing anything make it okay? no it doesn't, because it'd be better to just not say anything at all and still not do anything.
anyone who willingly labels themselves a paedophile is a fucking idiot, because from that point on they either live life as a good person but still have to put up with the social distrust, angst and so on, or they
do do something fucked up and truly condemn themselves to their label. that's society's fault.
looking at hentai/loli/whatever doesn't make you a paedophile. looking at real child porn or acting on those impulses does. by labelling yourself with such a strong and controversial tag you're condemning yourself to pre-judgement and social isolation before you've even done anything wrong. people keep saying "you can't punish someone for something they haven't done" and like i keep fucking saying,
i agree, but they're doing that themselves when they say "HEY GUYS I'M A PAEDO" before they've truly done anything wrong. why alarm everyone with that? why do i need to know?
should i be watching you very, very closely? why say it? why put the thought there if they truly mean to be a good person?
if you genuinely felt like you might not be able to control yourself and wanted outside help then fair enough, label yourself. if you've never actually masturbated over child porn or children or committed a relative crime or done anything wrong, you're not a paedophile. i don't see how someone can call themselves that nowadays if they've never actually done anything wrong. waste of time and taxpayers money.
in relation to that, i suppose i'd better get down the cop shop and let them know i could be a potential murderer so they can tag me and keep an eye on me. better safe than sorry.