Aicy
Strategos
Okay so this is something I've been thinking about quite a bit recently and I find it very interesting and somewhat important too, yet I've never seen it discussed once before, ever. Maybe because almost everyone is certain of their position, the position opposite to mine.
What I am talking about is whether or not paedophiles are bad people. I am certain that you immediately thought something synonymous with "yes" but I disagree. I have the opinion that being sexually attracted to children is no different to people of the same sex as you, or the opposite sex. It's not a choice and as long as it doesn't hurt other people shouldn't be condemned.
The problem with paedophilia is that the only way for it to actually happen is for the paedophile to molest the child. That is morally wrong, obviously. Same as a straight man molesting a women or a gay man molesting another man. However this, in my eyes, like with homosexuality, doesn't make all of paedophilia wrong.
Why is it that we live in a society where we are taking strides in rights for homosexuals, as we should be, but whenever the word paedophile is mentioned the word evil seems to come up too? For me, the only things morally wrong are when they hurt other people. If someone is a paedophile and they never hurt another person because of their sexual desires, then they are not a bad person because of it. They are just someone with a different sexual compass to you, like a heterosexual and a homosexual.
What I am trying to say is that if a paedophile never actually hurts a child by molesting them or watching real child pornography (as that as to be filmed and the child has to be, y'know. it's not good), but maybe just watch anime porn instead there is nothing wrong with them. The same could be true with necrophilia or zoophilia.
Although as I think about this I think there is one country where what I am saying is likely to be agreed to by most people, and that is Japan. Where anime (cartoon) porn of children is legal, and the same is true with stuff like tentacle monsters (zoophilia).
What I am talking about is whether or not paedophiles are bad people. I am certain that you immediately thought something synonymous with "yes" but I disagree. I have the opinion that being sexually attracted to children is no different to people of the same sex as you, or the opposite sex. It's not a choice and as long as it doesn't hurt other people shouldn't be condemned.
The problem with paedophilia is that the only way for it to actually happen is for the paedophile to molest the child. That is morally wrong, obviously. Same as a straight man molesting a women or a gay man molesting another man. However this, in my eyes, like with homosexuality, doesn't make all of paedophilia wrong.
Why is it that we live in a society where we are taking strides in rights for homosexuals, as we should be, but whenever the word paedophile is mentioned the word evil seems to come up too? For me, the only things morally wrong are when they hurt other people. If someone is a paedophile and they never hurt another person because of their sexual desires, then they are not a bad person because of it. They are just someone with a different sexual compass to you, like a heterosexual and a homosexual.
What I am trying to say is that if a paedophile never actually hurts a child by molesting them or watching real child pornography (as that as to be filmed and the child has to be, y'know. it's not good), but maybe just watch anime porn instead there is nothing wrong with them. The same could be true with necrophilia or zoophilia.
Although as I think about this I think there is one country where what I am saying is likely to be agreed to by most people, and that is Japan. Where anime (cartoon) porn of children is legal, and the same is true with stuff like tentacle monsters (zoophilia).