DISCLAIMER: PEDOPHILES =/ CHILD MOLESTER
I AM NOT DEFENDING CHILD MOLESTERS
He's right, and it's really not that difficult of a concept if you actually think about it rationally for a couple minutes instead of reacting with a kneejerk "BURN THE PEDO" witch hunt.
Straight people didn't wake up when puberty hit and tell themselves "I think I'll be straight. I'm going to be attracted to the opposite gender of my own. Gays didn't suddenly decide "Hey, fuck those people who aren't the same gender as me, I'm only going to be attracted to my own gender." Your brain is wired slightly differently from a straight person's brain. It's set in stone and you had no influence over whether it's curves and vaginas, muscles and penises, both, or something else entirely, that turns you on.
Pedophiles are exactly the same as straights, gays, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, and whatever else you can think of. They didn't decide to be attracted to children. They didn't want to be permanently burdened with a desire that they can never fulfill without ruining another human's life. No pedophile decided "Hey, I want to go destroy some innocent child's life in the process of getting my rocks off." It's a mistake in the wiring of the brain that they have no control over. They got fucked, and I feel for the innocent ones who succeed in fighting it their entire lives with all my heart.
The ones who go through with it are a more difficult topic, though they deserve immense punishment regardless. The person who interacted with you was a monster and deserves no sympathy, but he/she was a child molester first, and a pedophile second, if at all.
For the purpose of a thought exercise, imagine you live in an alternate world where being gay is illegal and punishable by exile and/or imprisonment at best, or execution at worst, due to gay sexual acts permanently damaging the propositioned partner in some way.
You are aware of this damage and have resolved to fight your intense desires your entire life, while forcing yourself to live a heterosexual life. At some point, it starts weighing on you more and more, and you go to a therapist for help resisting, because you're a good person, and the thought of hurting someone just kills you inside. This therapist reports you to the authorities instead of helping you, and you find yourself being harassed and potentially imprisoned or murdered.
Do you feel this is fair treatment? You never hurt anyone and never would. You just wanted to go about a normal life and be a good person while being burdened by this fucked up hand you got dealt at birth.
Pedophiles have difficulty getting help for their 'condition', if you will. I don't want to indirectly imply homosexuality is a disease, but it's a simple and easy word for me to explain my point with, and I can't think of another one at the moment. Psychiatrists and therapists are legally required to report it any time they feel a person might be in danger, and considering how pedophiles are the modern witch to burn at the stake, most pedophiles can't get any professional help without risking exposure and effectively the end of their lives. There have been a couple articles or interviews I've seen on the Internet in the past couple years, where pedophiles talk about what it's like and how hard it is having your primary sexual desire being something so evil and vile.
As a fetish group often associated with child molesters and pedophiles, it's in our best interests to both minimize our association with them, and change the way the system works so that the innocent people who happened to get a bad roll of the dice can get the help they need. We should be more empathetic with the innocents, considering how life ruining our secret can be upon discovery. If being a pedophile who's never harmed a child is seen as a condition that requires management and treatment instead of an automatic death sentence (hyperbole), maybe it would result in ABDLs being more publicly accepted. If people aren't terrified to even mention pedos, more people could possibly come to understand we have no attraction to the child.
Maybe in the future people will be able to go to the doctor and tell them they're a pedophile, and be prescribed medication that suppresses your sexual desire, or a method of discovering and rewriting sexual preferences through brain scans will be discovered, and pedophiles can be treated before a problem happens, instead of waiting until it does and having children be harmed because of it.
An ounce of preventing damage is worth a ton of punishment after it's too late. Killing the molester doesn't fix the child, but preventing the molestation prevents the child from ever being damaged.
Ok, done ranting. This is a topic that I took an interest in a while back after my ABDLism came to maturity and I realized it wasn't normal. I initially thought I was a pedo (quite a stressful concept, let me tell you), and was looking into it when I realized I didn't fit the description and discovered ABDL existed. Seeing some pedo related research and what some of the people afflicted with it had to say about pedophila kind of cemented the interest in me. I suppose you could say that I felt since ABDLs and pedos are often lumped together, it was in my best interest to maximize my knowledge.