Pedophilia is stigmatised far worse than sex between bosses and their employees or doctors and their patients. The distinction is important: people seldom feel seriously traumatised after having sex with their bosses, and when both involved parties are consenting nobody is thrown to prison.
Also what Will Newsome has said. The reasons why pedophilia is stigmatised are probably not identical to rationalisations made around it.
The reasons for difference between car theft and petty theft are clear. Not so in the discussed case. The original post claimed not to defend pedophilia, which I interpret as not saying that the rule “do not have sex with children” is bad, but that the social stigma associated with it is far greater than it reasonably should be.
Pedophilia is stigmatised far worse than sex between bosses and their employees or doctors and their patients. The distinction is important: people seldom feel seriously traumatised after having sex with their bosses, and when both involved parties are consenting nobody is thrown to prison.
Also what Will Newsome has said. The reasons why pedophilia is stigmatised are probably not identical to rationalisations made around it.
Clearly it was an example of kind and not of magnitude. Car theft is punished for the same reasons as petty theft, but to a much greater extent
The reasons for difference between car theft and petty theft are clear. Not so in the discussed case. The original post claimed not to defend pedophilia, which I interpret as not saying that the rule “do not have sex with children” is bad, but that the social stigma associated with it is far greater than it reasonably should be.