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The_Metatron wrote:

I know perfectly well it is Thomas who has hung his hat on empathy as what "prevents" some pedophiles to act.

Emphasis on some. And I have not hung my hat on anything.
I am merely pointing out facts that disprove your narrative that paedophiles are incapable of not acting on their attractions.

I am not confident that either of you understand that that prevents nothing, though.

At this point I could not care less about your personal credulity on the matter. Especially since, so far your objections boils down to blind accusations and the insinuation that the only TrueTM form of prevention must be physical in nature.

There is little doubt that pedophiles exist who are able to control their urges.

Then why do you feel its ok to treat them all as if they're child molestors?

What I think you and Thomas don't want to face is the idea that many of them, or perhaps even most of them, will eventually fail in that endeavor.

I cannot face things not given in evidence, regardless of the subject.
I am perfectly willing to entertain the possibility, but until you provide evidence for that claim I will not agree to the persecution of paedophiles for their paedophelia alone.

I base that estimate on the power that the drive for sex has on human behavior.

So you base it in your continued simplistic and bullshit notion that people are rabbits.
And once again you imply that humans in general are likely to be rapists.