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I'm sorry, I can't get past you comparing pedophilia to the gay or trans* experience. That's just despicable.

• btilly 14y ago
  It is very easy to label something as despicable, and then refuse to think about it. It doesn't make that thing wrong. A sexual orientation is simply, "This pattern sets off the circuits in my brain telling me to get turned on." You can have an orientation that results in normal heterosexual relationships. You can have one that results in unusual relationships that harm nobody. You can have one that results in a desire to do very, very bad things. The outcomes of those orientations are very different. But, fundamentally, they are similar feedback loops. And therefore our expectations for what causes them, and how difficult they are to change, should be similar.
  • ahelwer 14y ago
    People who want to rape children are not the victimized group here. Get help.
    • btilly 14y ago
      It would help if you started responding to what was actually said, and not what you think was said. The two bear only a distant relation, and all the parts you're objecting to only were said in your imagination. Before disagreeing, review my words and find where I've said anything indicating that I consider pedophiles a "victimized group". Please don't miss the part where I said that I personally am OK with criminalizing child porn because most of the people you find consuming that material are likely to be pedophiles, who probably have offended.