Anonymous #1 1w

I am

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Anonymous OP 1w

Sweet! So to start I’ll say that I 10000000% oppose actual pederists. People who have actually harmed children. I think that they deserve whatever happens to them when they’re caught. With that in mind, imagine one day you wake up and all of a sudden you’re attracted to children. Maybe because you were assaulted yourself as a child and this is a trauma response. And you can NEVER tell anyone about it because of social stigma (like this post) and so the thoughts just brew with no healthy out-

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Anonymous #1 1w

-let and I think that actually CAUSES people to act on their desires. I mean imagine trying ti repress your own sexual desires. My argument is that we need to separate the criminals from the people who desperately need help (often victims)

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Anonymous #1 1w

I see your point, but that argument can be used for literally anything. “What if they’re suddenly attracted to animals?” “What if they suddenly feel the mental urge to become serial killers?” Mental disorders or mental reactions are not justifiable reasons to express the feelings. Just cause someone is into children due to functions that they can’t control does not mean they have the right to justify getting hard by looking at innocent kids. If they’re sane, they’ll admit themselves to therapy.

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Anonymous OP 1w

No and I’m 100% with you but heres the kicker. Alot of them actually get DROPPED by their therapists when they admit they’re attracted to minors. Thats how stigmatized this mental illness is. If we as a society dont look it in the face and acknowledge it we will continue to see children be assaulted.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Oh wow, I didn’t know that therapists dropped them like that… but here’s the thing tho, I feel like acknowledgment of any kind of justification for pedophilia in the mental sense can be kind of harmful. Like, I know I’m being a little theoretical, but we def see many violent crime cases be thrown away due to the defendant pleading mental insanity. Not to mention, many rape cases also get lower sentences due to claims of instability. What if that causes pedos to get less of a punishment?

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Anonymous OP 1w

I get your fear but if an active pedo got less of a punishment id riot as I think would most. Even if they did they wouldn’t last long in prison. We are able to stop so many killers because we have therapy. We allow spaces for our deepest and sometimes harmful thoughts to live. If these thoughts cant exist in society they wont just *poof* vanish. Instead they’ll manifest in sinister ways.

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Anonymous #1 1w

To this, I’ll say having pedophilloic thoughts is one thing, which should be advocated to receive mental help, and also be promoted to mental health support staff to try to help, but I still would find people who are pedos to be an ick and it’s not the pedos with the thought that go to jail, it’s the ones that rape the kids

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Anonymous OP 1w

I would just maybe push you empathetically to see it as a very valid turn off you have rather than an ick. If I was dating someone and they admitted to being a psychopath I would of course be turned off but I’d also advocate for them to get/maintain help.

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Anonymous #1 1w

I agree with the help part, but isn’t an ick basically what a turn off is?

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Anonymous OP 1w

I guess people could have different definitions but when I think of an ick I think of like MAGA supporters, zionists etc. I don’t see innocent people suffering from minor attraction or schizophrenia that same way for example. I just would see their ailment as a romantic turn off.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Would you be friends with somebody who’s attracted to kids?

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Anonymous OP 1w

Ugh thats a tough one. I think if they were a really good person (which Id like to think I have a good read of) and they opened up to me that they had a trauma and are now suffering from this and I see them ACTUALLY get help. I could see it. I would of course keep him on idk, high alert in my life in case I ever saw anything I didnt like but otherwise yeaaa?

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Anonymous #1 1w

I guess that’s fair, if they’re a good person who doesn’t want to hurt anyone, and is open to seeking help, I would be the same as you, but I for sure would not be inviting them to any events with kids

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Anonymous OP 1w

Which I get 😂 but I’d like to think this good person would actively ask you if there were kids there before going so as not to get triggered.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Lmaoo, true true

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Anonymous #1 1w

What if it’s someone who just likes kids and has no trauma, which is a realistic possibility, btw.

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Anonymous #3 5d

Hey u sound like a pedo. Being attracted to kids isnt normal. U dont just wake up one day like that. If u have intrusive thoughts u might have ocd or something but liking kids is different and your argument is so outlandish that you are either a pedo or just looking to argue bcs this shouldn’t even be a discussion. Its such a black and white topic that there is very clearly a right answer.

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Anonymous #4 5d

I’m guessing your reading comprehension is quite low

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Anonymous #4 5d

OML read the thread before my comment and then read who I was replying to (person #1). No shit, being attracted to kids as an adult isn't normal.

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Anonymous #1 5d

It’s so obvious gang 😭

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