I agree with you. As someone who finds the idea of telling a therapist about legal but weird fetishes to be an idea that makes me feel nauseous, I can't imagine there's many people in the world brave enough to tell a therapist that they have pedophillic inclinations and they don't want to have that and they want help.

If there was a path and a program set up for these people, a lot of good could come from it. Sin festers and grows in darkness and isolation, and essentially because the options for someone who has those feelings is threats of getting killed or keep it a secret and let it fester, that is a reason many of them have it fester to the point that they do something heinous, whereas if they felt they could get help earlier on, things could have gone a very different way for them.

Again, I've thought this through in the same way you have. I know, just as you do that the left wants a very different outcome and wants normalization and would use any inch given as a wedge to unspeakable atrocities, whereas someone like me or you wants pedophiles who haven't offended to come forward and get treatment so that there's less pedophiles. Both the new conservative and the leftist approach to pedophiles creates more offending pedophiles.

The leftist approach intentionally and by design, and the modern right approach by making pedophiles isolate, and grow in darkness out of fear.

First of all, because it's a sin problem, it should be dealt with through the grace of Jesus with programs in churches. Just like a person who struggles with homosexuality, but wants to not to, and to follow Jesus can tell people at their church and in 99% of cases the churches are happy to help them and get them to come out of the darkness and into the light through programs and through them being sanctified by God's word and help from fellow believers.

I feel that churches should offer this for people who have pedophilic desires so that it can be said of them "as WERE some of you" but no longer because you've been washed, cleaned, sanctified in Jesus. Just like there are former practicing homosexuals, if programs like that were in place in churches for people with those desires, then I believe there would be many people who could testify that Jesus changed their heart and desires and they are grateful that they got help before they did something horrific.

The core of it is humans mostly don't want to help other humans, unless they're part of their specific tribe/village, to which even then it's just put them in a jail cell or off them, problem solved. The simple competitive nature of survival in the Animal Kingdom leads to assumptions and hard-lines of what is acceptable, and hey, if one person is believed to being incapable of giving back, just get rid of them, more resources for the tribe. Of course, this has changed in post-agrarian civilizations over time, but the fact that there's so many more people around that have these contribution issues, probably due to medical / technological advancement or society being humane, makes this sentiment from the populace even more misanthropic.

A non offending pedophile isn't a pedophile to me. I judge people based on their actions. IDC, really, about their thoughts. That's why I don't care if someone draws pedo porn. I don't even consider that pedo. Just suspicious.