Intellectual pedos.

People are self serving. Intellectual doesn't mean good.

I feel bad for people who are attracted to kids, KNOW it's wrong, and thus DON'T act on it. I don't think It can be cured or helped.

I don't tolerate those who support , excuse or embrace it, however.

Just as a lonely dude doesn't have the excuse to violate anyone.

I understand what you mean but at the same time I think you've got it a bit backwards. The laws concerning pedophilia were created to protect children, not to dictate what people think about.

I'd say it's worth questioning the person or persons who post such comments to see what they actually meant.

As a lot of people around here know, I've been publicly called a pedo and a child fucker because I defend the LGBT+ community from people who love the false narrative that all gays, trans, and so forth are child rapists.

That's obviously false.

But what most folks around here don't know is that I'm not necessarily on board with the "ARRRHH!!! KILL ALL PEDOPHILES!" rants that people go on around here.

Because like with many mental illnesses, pedophilia can be treated and controlled with therapy (and maybe medicine). And shaming these people by talking about how they all need to die means that people who maybe have those tendencies, but want to get rid of them, are afraid to come forward, because they are fully convinced that a lynch mob will come to their house and kill them.

And so I would ask the people who like to post the "kill all pedos" rants: Do you really want to shame these people? Do you honestly and truly want to make it impossible for them to be open and honest with a therapist about their mental problems? Because I'll tell you what happens when people try to repress shit like that without having the proper tools to change their way of thinking. They end up stuffing, and it always comes out in the end.