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I don't see why anyone would "choose" to be a pedophile

It is worth noting that there are people who don't seem to have the mental illness (nor are victims of CSA) but seem to like it as a power thing, ranging from weebs to soldiers.

But you are right there are people who just have the mental illness, are revolted at the idea of hurting children, and desperately need help that doesn't impugn on their character for something that isn't their fault.

The real issue is the willingness to traumatize others just for a few minutes of pleasure, which isn't exclusive to pedophiles.

I actually remember reading about a study that was carried out on a group of inmates who had been sentenced for sexually abusing children, and apparently it showed that a majority of them weren't actually pedophiles in the clinical sense, as in having a primary sexual preference for children, but were rather opportunists who chose children as victims out of convenience. Children are easier to manipulate both mentally and physically than adults, so that's what they went for.

The real issue is the willingness to traumatize others just for a few minutes of pleasure, which isn't exclusive to pedophiles.

Exactly, like it's so extremely normalized for men to just reduce down the target of their lust into a depersonalized sex-thing to control and own and use for their own entertainment. This is what I think is at the heart of how reactionaries breathlessly try to draw lines between pedophilia (the disorder) and the crime of preying on teenagers, because the latter is just a slight realignment downwards from what they are already believe is normal and ok (men controlling and exploiting women), and they see hurting and exploiting people as fine but being "weird" as an intolerable mortal insult.

Also ever since the "height gap discourse" thread I've been stuck with the realization that the problem is not that someone being attracted to a short woman who is not well endowed is "icky", it's the literally everything else that goes along with projecting one's desires onto someone who does not and/or fundamentally cannot reciprocate them, the dehumanization and reduction of a person down to just a fetish object to be taken and owned, the innate power imbalance and how it facilitates abuse and control, even the ephemerality of someone wanting to have someone for a trait that they will inevitably stop having in short order. All of these are problems with how toxic the accepted "normal" male expression of sexuality in our society is, because these are horrible issues when they're directed at adults and they only get worse as their targets get younger, with the power imbalance increasing and increasing and the way that genuine enthusiastic consent stops even being a hypothetical possibility.

people really can't differentiate between those 2 things,

That and the fact that an overwhelmingly large amount of people who are just "harmlessly" indulging in lolicon hentai or similar victimless art are also virulent misogynistic fascists who are actively getting more alienated and radicalized into right wing bile because it validates their self-serving, dehumanizing desires and twists any feelings of guilt or self-loathing into outwardly directed violence, all the while further conditioning and reinforcing their desires and probably tacking on a whole bunch of revolting rationalizations to it too.

It seems like the number of people who have a genuine disorder that gives them intrusive thoughts that are at odds with their ethical beliefs is extremely small compared to the population that's just "typical shitty fascist straight guy whose brain has rotted to the point that his accepted targets of lust include young teens and children, and has become obsessed with the latter because of brainworms."

I'm a thousand year old dragon that only looks like a 6 year old girl in a bikini

That statement could apply to at least half the games in the series.