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I am not sure why you are lumping pedophiles with murders and rapists. Pedophilia is the attraction to prepubescent children. It is nothing more than that. Most people with this disorder don't sexually molest prepubescent children. About half of the people that do engage in sexually activity with children are not attracted to them, they do it because they have access and control of the child.

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I think you should share your views at the next team meeting, I am sure you will get many brownie points.

This is not an opinion, it is a fact. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association lists pedophilia as both a sexual orientation and disorder.

"The essential feature of this disorder is recurrent, intense, sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies, of at least six months' duration, involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child."

"The age of the person is arbitrarily set at age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgmzwn/most-child-sex-abuser...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09249...

https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi429

Sure, and it will also be a carrier suicide to state that at your work place in front of all your coworkers.

My point was any PR =/= good PR.

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