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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
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.
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No, it's not a crime (that I know of, anyway), and I wasn't meaning to imply that it is. But it does, according to everything I've read, mean that a person having those feelings is by definition a pedophile.