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Originally Posted by JLeighs
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.
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But is that
feeling of attraction, as disgusting as it is, a crime? I come from a Muslim background and Islamic law, as bad a reputation as it has in the West, doesn't permit arresting people for thinking or feeling certain things (although expression of certain thoughts, verbal or physical, would be a sin).
Should western, secular governments really put themselves in the business of outlawing and punishing certain thoughts and desires? That sounds more like an inquisition then a system of 'ordered liberty' as envisaged by the architects of the Enlightenment.