For discussion: If you were a pedophile

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I was able to follow along with what you were saying, right up until this point:

Originally Posted by sean

Of course children deserve protection from sexual abuse, but all too often this 'protection' is simply a cipher for social control of their sexuality and of sexuality in general. Children themselves are now being routinely subjected to accusations of sexual abuse of peers and are subsequently exposed to serious institutional abuse by the judicial system. As if sexual curiosity were a heinous crime.

Screeching halt. Standard party line of many abusive pedophiles is that what they are doing is not abuse if the child is willing. And I take issue with the assertion that "children" in the sense you mean are going through the judicial system--worst case scenario is teenagers being accused of statutory rape with their teenage girlfriends. You are not discussing teenagers, you are discussing little children. I think there may have been one story that I can recall in the last 10 years about a kindergartener who was suspended for kissing another kindergartener on the playground. That's hardly "insitutional abuse" by the "judicial system."

When you insert this topic in with the rest, your sincerity takes a big hit.