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Originally Posted by AGB
I am not, and neither is anyone else, standing up for the right to be paedophile, we're standing up for the right to have those thoughts.
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But a pedophile is someone who is sexually attracted to children. The definition is not limited solely to acting out on those attractions. If an adult has a sexual attraction to children and/or has sexual thoughts about children, then that person is, by definition, a pedophile.
In addition, there are plenty of adults arrested on a daily basis even though they have not actually touched a child. There are numerous undercover law enforcement personnel out there to trap and arrest child predators before they've gotten even close to a child. I realize that this isn't quite the same thing as we are discussing here, but I do think it shows that this discussion of pedophilia and free speech is not as cut-and-dried as some would like to think.