>>46
OP is wrong, he needs to put down the pitchfork, take a deep breath and realize hysteria, revenge and persecution is not the answer.
Still, pedophilia has no physiological basis like homosexuality, it is not an instinct someone is born with, it is a fetish that occurs due to psychological conditioning. As you rightly say "the brain's a muddled mess of really complicated things", there are a variety of reasons why someone will develop a fetish because everyone has different life experiences, however the process of associating something with sexual urges, whether consciously or subconsciously, and repeatedly reinforcing this association is the same.
Not all fetishes are wrong, someone may have a harmless latex fetish or a chubby fetish, the problem is when someone allows their fantasies to develop into something that is not practical in the real world, either creating sexual tension when they cannot carry them out or causing problems in the real world when they do. Our culture encourages people to seek out adult males and adult females for relationships and sex, there is also an overwhelming amount of adult male and adult female sexualized material, most pedophiles find adults they are mildly attracted to, they then develop new associations between adults and sex, eventually their fetish atrophies and we never hear about them. The pedophiles we do hear about are those that for some reason could not do this and have some sort of problem understanding their sexual desires, possibly due to mental illness or personality disorders, due to a highly traumatic experience or due to exceptional circumstances.