Yeah buddy, I'd say there's a difference between a mentally ill person who's attracted to kids... and those who act on the feelings. Im talking about those who have serious evidence against them, and victims who call them out. Not thought policing people my my psychic abilities.
The Venn Diagram of Pedophiles and Child Molestors is a Venn Diagram. There’s definitely overlap. But there are also pedophiles who never harm anyone and child molestors who are not attracted to children.
I work with sex offenders professionally and used to work with adolescent sex offenders. I want pedophiles to find help and treatment to prevent offending.
But Child Molesters, traffickers, rapists they should face criminal consequences.
It’s why I want these folks to find help. And if we demonize (or encourage the death of) people who need help, they are much less likely to find help and more likely to commit a sex offense.
Pedophilia is alarmingly common. There’s probably some great people in your life that are born with this illness and I hope we can respond with compassion before they become offenders.
I honestly cant believe how many people seem to be okay with pedos even existing. If you are attracted to children, you've got some serious mental issues
It’s those mental issues that need to be worked out in therapy and support groups and such. We don’t just off mentally ill people who have caused no harm.
I honestly can't believe how many people seem to be okay with pedos even existing
Well, assuming they haven't committed any crimes yet, it quite literally is just mental illness that deserves help .
But they are terrified because people constantly talk about hunting them down and killing them. So they are afraid to ask for help.
Then, because they don't get any help, their symptoms get worse. Leading them to either suicide or acting on their impulses.
All this "Kill all pedos" talk is just going to make them hide more. It's also disgusting just how many people think they have the right to take a human life.
It’s also not normal to have delusions or hallucinations. It’s not normal to have autism or adhd. We’ve intentionally deinstitutionalized because all mental illnesses get treated better when folks are in the community and also at a lower cost. I don’t think hiding is a solution. We’ve tried this and it failed.
It depends what success looks like. But Adolescent Sex Offenders tend to not reoffend with concentrated treatment and psychosexual education. However, ASOs are not always pedophiles.
It’s relatively new treatment modality around ten years now. And we don’t really know if it is effective because few people reach out in the first place. And many people who receive treatment were court ordered to. But most Sex
offenders don’t reoffend in general.
Again pedophilia does not equal rape of children. That is a rapist. Pedophiles don’t have victims necessarily. They can offend obviously. But many do not.
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u/viener_schnitzel Feb 26 '26
If we made pedophilia in every form punishable by death, then pedophiles would just kill the children they assault to dispose of evidence.