Quick pet peeve

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I think it is ridiculous to call it a psychiatric disorder. Unless by "disorder" they mean "different from most people". It's a different mode of sexual attraction, calling it a disorder seems like a lot of baggage to attach.

Of course, I'm 100% against child pornography and child abuse, hopefully that goes without saying. But it's an entirely different subject to who is and isn't a paedophile.

I feel pretty confident that there are paedeophiles out there who have never acted in any harmful way on their urges. They are the ones I feel the most sorry for. Not least because almost no one would be understanding about it if they were open.

For those who have committed crimes, I hate them for having done so, but I also feel sorry for them that they have urges that are not their fault which have virtually no legal way to be satisfied. Again, crimes and genetic dispositions are two separate subjects and I can evaluate people on those two things separately.

I think it's such a taboo that it's really hard to start a sensible conversation about it, because people go straight to crazy if you dare "defend" a paedophile, without bothering to ask what this paedophile has done, if anything.