The thing that Scott is desperately trying to avoid being read out of context.
Also, pedophilia is probably much more common than anyone think (just like any other unaccepted sexual variation). And probably just like many heterosexuals feel little touches of homosexual desire, many “non-pedophiles” feel something sexual-ish toward children at least sometimes.
And if we go there—the age of concent is (justifiably) much higher than the age that requires any psychological anomaly to desire. More directly: many many old men that have no attraction to 10-yo girls do have for 14-yo and maybe younger.
(I hope it is clear enough that nothing I wrote here is meant to have any moral implications around concent—only about compassion)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/you-dont-want-a-purely-biological
The thing that Scott is desperately trying to avoid being read out of context.
Also, pedophilia is probably much more common than anyone think (just like any other unaccepted sexual variation). And probably just like many heterosexuals feel little touches of homosexual desire, many “non-pedophiles” feel something sexual-ish toward children at least sometimes.
And if we go there—the age of concent is (justifiably) much higher than the age that requires any psychological anomaly to desire. More directly: many many old men that have no attraction to 10-yo girls do have for 14-yo and maybe younger.
(I hope it is clear enough that nothing I wrote here is meant to have any moral implications around concent—only about compassion)