• @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    That’s like telling gay dudes to stop liking dick. It’s brain chemistry and neural circuits, you can’t exactly just snap your fingers and be rid of the problem. Humans are complex creatures.

    • @nxfsi
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      -31 year ago

      Obligatory “are you comparing pedophiles to LGBTQ?”

    • such_lettuce7970
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      1 year ago

      Pedophilia is not akin to being gay (and kindly fuck off with that tyvm). It’s akin to rape, or sexual sadism (and I mean real, violent sadism, not roleplay). It is a predatory inclination and @nxsfi is right - trying to frame it as an “orientation” does sound like MAP acceptance rhetoric.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Pedophilia can’t be comparable to rape because rape is an act and pedophilia is not. Child rape is often incorrectly called pedophilia, but pedophilia itself is a mental state, and this is exactly the kind of conversation where conflating mental states with actions is entirely unacceptable.

      • @Mango
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        41 year ago

        I like girls. Does that mean I rape them too? Spaceships too. Also rape?

        • @[email protected]
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          -61 year ago

          Children can never consent, so your analogy doesn’t work

          Spaceships can absolutely consent.

          • @Mango
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            11 year ago

            Consent to what? Me liking them? Nobody really gets to decide what I like. I don’t even decide that. If I could do that, I’d pick something super accessible and non controversial like just breathing or viewing the color green.