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Friendly reminder that the word "pedophile" is heavily misused. What it actually means is people unfortunate enough to be attracted to children, which may or may not lead in them following it and abusing kids.

If you will ever see someone hanging out in a pedophile online group, there's a large chance it's a support community for people who specifically do not abuse children. This is a good practice generally approved by psychotherapists. In this case, doxxing them or calling for violence against them will do more harm than good.

That said, if someone actually hints on any form of child abuse, consumes, shares, or especially produces CSAM - they must be violently stopped on sight.