>>831
I dunno about the Jews, but people like that I'd very much like the chance to kill.
>>829
Both you and I know one should't take one small act to justify love. That was an example.
To answer OP, I know a pedophile. She set it up like a joke, "Hey, you know how I came out about being gay? Anon, I'm a also a pedophile." So I just stared at her blankly for a few seconds. "I really am. I like little girls." It took her a minute to convince me she was for real. I didn't believe anybody would just say it like that. Conventionally, you're supposed to despise pedos, I did, but I couldn't bring this sentiment against her.
She explained to me that she did have a sexual component to her attraction, but she said it was worse when she was away from children. "Look at them. The girls." she said once when we we hung out at an outdoor mall, "Don't check them out, just watch what they do. They enjoy life when left to themselves. They don't care about all that crap adults worry about. They're happy. They're creative." She said biology caused her lust, and that it was largely overridden in their presence. No, not every pedophile is like her. Those that you hear about on the news, they are the predators, the ones that see children as objects.
Based on what she's said, if she were to have a relationship with a child it would be similar to a mother-daughter relationship, with less time spent on general childcare and more on teaching/learning and fun. Asymmetrical, yes, but actually selfless. She said it would certainly be seen as "romantic" because she would not be the mother, and that there was a massive social stigma against anything of the sort, though she admitted it was for good reason. She says the most frustrating part is this, that there are horrible people whose existence prevents what she says would exist for the sole reason of making a child happy. A mentor, a friend, a lover in a non-sexual way (I'm paraphrasing a bit here but she was fairly poetic about it).
I don't know if I would agree in her position.