What if one of your friends is a pedofile, but he has learned to control his urges

[RageAndLov]

I'm not pro-pedo, I think pedophiles can't help being attracted to children, but those who do not act upon their urges have done nothing wrong and should not be looked down upon.

Imagine if you are attracted to women (which you most likely are), and you for some reason could not have sex with them ever. It could be because no one would ever want to have sex with you, and prostitution was illegal and you would be condemned to death if you were to have sex with a prostitute.

Would you go to the length of raping a woman to fill your urges? Or would you masturbate to porn for the rest of your life? In the case of pedophiles, that porn would be drawn porn, like loli hentai, not real child porn.

[MOTO13]

I'm not pro-pedo, I think pedophiles can't help being attracted to children, but those who do not act upon their urges have done nothing wrong and should not be looked down upon.

Imagine if you are attracted to women (which you most likely are), and you for some reason could not have sex with them ever. It could be because no one would ever want to have sex with you, and prostitution was illegal and you would be condemned to death if you were to have sex with a prostitute.

Would you go to the length of raping a woman to fill your urges? Or would you masturbate to porn for the rest of your life? In the case of pedophiles, that porn would be drawn porn, like loli hentai, not real child porn.

First off, anyone who defends a pedophile or the act in any manner is a fucking wacko deserving no more attention than 20 day expired milk. If you do not act upon an urge, no harm done. Show me one pedo who fills this bill cause that sentence makes no god damn sense. Once you are a pedo, line crossed, game over. Otherwise you ain't a pedo. That's like saying your a drug addict who has never tried drugs. Children are deserving of more protection from these frigging abominations of humanity because they are basically defenseless. Many times they (children) are abused and never say a word. Can't have that. Too much at risk.

[Llamas]

I'm not pro-pedo, I think pedophiles can't help being attracted to children, but those who do not act upon their urges have done nothing wrong and should not be looked down upon.

Imagine if you are attracted to women (which you most likely are), and you for some reason could not have sex with them ever. It could be because no one would ever want to have sex with you, and prostitution was illegal and you would be condemned to death if you were to have sex with a prostitute.

Would you go to the length of raping a woman to fill your urges? Or would you masturbate to porn for the rest of your life? In the case of pedophiles, that porn would be drawn porn, like loli hentai, not real child porn.

The comparison fails because being attracted to children is fucked up. It's not because it's illegal; it's because there's something wrong with you if you seriously want to fuck children. Obviously a pedophile who fights the urge is SIGNIFICANTLY less terrible than one who does it... and obviously someone who's interested in someone who seems adult-like (15-year-olds can seem mature/adult-like these days) is much less creepy than someone who wants children, but it's really not comparable to if having sex with women was arbitrarily illegal.

[bighead384]

The comparison fails because being attracted to children is fucked up. It's not because it's illegal; it's because there's something wrong with you if you seriously want to fuck children. Obviously a pedophile who fights the urge is SIGNIFICANTLY less terrible than one who does it... and obviously someone who's interested in someone who seems adult-like (15-year-olds can seem mature/adult-like these days) is much less creepy than someone who wants children, but it's really not comparable to if having sex with women was arbitrarily illegal.

How is it terrible just to have the attraction?

My main thing is, I don't think the psychology behind discerning who you choose to associate with is complicated. It's pretty simple actually. However, from a policy perspective we must err on the side of caution. So if 75% of minors are psychologically ready to make decisions like this at the age of 17, we must still set the age of consent at 18 for the remaining 25%.

[_Lost_]

Legal age of consent in France: 16. (when last I heard)

Unless my ears deceived me, legal age of consent in Columbia: 12.

Now somebody explain, in plain and rational terms, this discrepancy.

Its 12 in Mexico, 14 in Colombia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of..._South_America

[Offspring-Junkie]

Hey Thibault, what is your opinion on this topic?

[MOTO13]

Legal age of consent in France: 16. (when last I heard)

Unless my ears deceived me, legal age of consent in Columbia: 12.

Now somebody explain, in plain and rational terms, this discrepancy.

America has rational laws that at least attempt to keep the public safe from child raping pigs.

[Llamas]

America has rational laws that at least attempt to keep the public safe from child raping pigs.

What on earth does this have to do with the difference between the age law in France and Colombia/Mexico?

Also, I didn't know the US had specific laws against a child raping pigs.

[MOTO13]

Do I hate such incomprehensible statements.

America? Which America? You mean the USA? And by what exact margin did you miss the point?

Which America? Ok, the USA. The only country known as America for the past 200 years. How you could confuse continents which do not have laws to a nation of laws is incomprehensible.

[MOTO13]

But by "America" you might also have meant a continent, you silly ass. I was, after all, referring to Colombia, a country in Latin America, then Lost cited two Latin American countries as well. I had an inkling you were alluding to the USA but I found your indirect thinking - citing the USA as having a body of law, versus lawless wilderness that is supposedly Latin America, would further my point that the discrepancy between ages of consent in France and Colombia was too much of a gap - convoluted to a degree.

For the rest, see Llamas' post. You ought to have written "child-raping", not "child raping" which put me in mind of kids sexing pigs, a rather hallucinatory vision and one which I would have fain done without.

How you got confused when no others did is beyond me. I am pretty easy to understand. Continents don't have laws, countries do. I never said or implied anything about latin american wilderness bullshit. So when I say that ...America has laws...how you confused this is with anything else, I can't help you bro. My thinking is anything but indirect.