Why is someone who is attracted to children but doesnt act on it seen as worse than a serial killer or a rapist?

[pedo233]

I notice that someone who is sexually attracted to children but doesnt act on it is seen as a worse person than a serial killer or rapist, why is this?

[NeverLoseKibou]

It's because children are generally seen as something less than a full person, something that's there, like a pet, so the idea of someone feeling something romantic or erotic for them is seen the same as feeling such things for a pet or other animal.

You have to shift your thinking and try to think like a typical non-map. They don't feel emotion towards children in the same way. Kids must show respect but never receive it. Kids are told what to do, it's inconceivable to be informed or educated about anything from a child. Do you respect or learn from a dog? No, although would likely love your dog. Many pet owners say their pets are like their children, there's real truth to that, the dynamic is closer than people care to really explore.

But maps see children as full people and so emotional feelings including romance and sexual feelings can happen just the same as between two non-map adults. That's because there's respect there, connection, care.

This is totally alien to a non-map, it triggers them, partly because it shines a light on their own disrespect and lack of care or connection with children, partly because they simply can't understand how someone can care and connect with them as people.

Murder is something they can understand, everyone gets angry, everyone can understand someone being driven to do something terrible like murder. So murder and rape are things they can understand so it is easier to process and less scary. But love, respect, care, connection with children, that's so far beyond what they are capable of that it just creates a greater fear, even though the thing itself is a positive thing.

[Meiwaku_Mailing_Girl]

Pedophiles are perceived as ontologically subhuman.

[Meiwaku_Mailing_Girl]

It's because children are generally seen as something less than a full person, something that's there, like a pet, so the idea of someone feeling something romantic or erotic for them is seen the same as feeling such things for a pet or other animal.

You have to shift your thinking and try to think like a typical non-map. They don't feel emotion towards children in the same way. Kids must show respect but never receive it. Kids are told what to do, it's inconceivable to be informed or educated about anything from a child. Do you respect or learn from a dog? No, although would likely love your dog. Many pet owners say their pets are like their children, there's real truth to that, the dynamic is closer than people care to really explore.

But maps see children as full people and so emotional feelings including romance and sexual feelings can happen just the same as between two non-map adults. That's because there's respect there, connection, care.

This is totally alien to a non-map, it triggers them, partly because it shines a light on their own disrespect and lack of care or connection with children, partly because they simply can't understand how someone can care and connect with them as people.

Murder is something they can understand, everyone gets angry, everyone can understand someone being driven to do something terrible like murder. So murder and rape are things they can understand so it is easier to process and less scary. But love, respect, care, connection with children, that's so far beyond what they are capable of that it just creates a greater fear, even though the thing itself is a positive thing.

Not all non-maps lack respect for children and not all maps respect children. I hate this "maps are magical" uwu pedo cope thinking.

Most people's hatred of pedophiles isn't even based on some deep reason like what you claim. Most people hate pedos because it's unthinkable to not hate pedophiles (just like it's unthinkable to support nazism). People are conformist. They hate pedophiles more than adult rapist and muderers because that's the societal moral.

[NeverLoseKibou]

Not all non-maps lack respect for children and not all maps respect children. I hate this "maps are magical" uwu pedo cope thinking.

Most people's hatred of pedophiles isn't even based on some deep reason like what you claim. Most people hate pedos because it's unthinkable to not hate pedophiles (just like it's unthinkable to support nazism). People are conformist. They hate pedophiles more than adult rapist and muderers because that's the societal moral.

I disagree but you're welcome to your opinion.

Of course, maps like any group are diverse, but on balance I believe maps respect children more frequently than non-maps.
When you like someone you tend to feel an emotional reaction to care for them, to want to protect them. Most people who have been in love or even just drawn to someone has experienced this. People talk of getting tongue tied, butterflies in their stomach, hot flushes, but a common reaction is to care for their happiness and safety. Those reactions are common enough to build a whole romantic film and book industry. Gay people react in that way towards their own gender. It follows logically that people attracted to young people would react that way also. After all, if you like someone who tend to care about them and respect them more than someone you have no emotional connection to.

Of course there will be jerks, sociopaths who don't have that reaction, but on balance I believe the logic supports it, as does experience. I've known plenty of maps over the decades and they've pretty much all been respectful and caring about young people.

Also, I don't believe most people hate maps, that hasn't been my experience. My experience has been that the majority of people simply don't care about maps, not enough to become hate. People's lives are hard and busy, they have a million things to deal with and worry about, maps really are not on their radar day to day. They hate us as much as they hate people who keep snakes or spiders. They likely don't like snakes or spiders, but they don't know anyone who keeps them so it just isn't something they think or care that much about. Actually they hate anti's more because anti's do clutter up their social media feeds with depressing hate speech and do create awkward situations which nobody wants to deal with.

Finger in the air, I'd say 1% of people genuinely hate maps, and they usually have other deeper mental issues going on. But I do think people who hate pedophiles do so because they can't relate to pedophiles at all and the idea of a non-offending pedophile or anyone connecting with kids respectifully is just something they can't understand or relate to at all. Murders and rapists are easy to connect to, they're based on emotions everyone has.

[RoosterDance]

Actually they hate anti's more because anti's do clutter up their social media feeds with depressing hate speech and do create awkward situations which nobody wants to deal with.

What you describe here sounds a lot like what BLueRibbon describes in his latest blog post. So, perhaps what you and Mailing_Girl are debating might actually amount to a difference in cultures. Or perhaps just different social circles.

[weird.organisms]

I think it's because it defeats their worldview of all MAPs being evil child molesters.

People who love to hate can't stand it when their opposition has flaws they cannot use against the individual (or in this case a whole community). So they hate them for that alone. The try to gaslight them into saying something or doing something incriminating. It's like a "how dare you not have anything I can use to shame you or use against you!" mentality.

Antagonistic people live to make others miserable. For fun. If they can't have that, they hate it even more.

[pedo233]

Finger in the air, I'd say 1% of people genuinely hate maps, and they usually have other deeper mental issues going on. But I do think people who hate pedophiles do so because they can't relate to pedophiles at all and the idea of a non-offending pedophile or anyone connecting with kids respectifully is just something they can't understand or relate to at all. Murders and rapists are easy to connect to, they're based on emotions everyone has.

Seems like its more than that, i remember reading a survey about pedophiles and one of the questions asked if non offending pedophiles are better off being dead and around half of the participants said yes.

[Meiwaku_Mailing_Girl]

Finger in the air, I'd say 1% of people genuinely hate maps, and they usually have other deeper mental issues going on. But I do think people who hate pedophiles do so because they can't relate to pedophiles at all and the idea of a non-offending pedophile or anyone connecting with kids respectifully is just something they can't understand or relate to at all. Murders and rapists are easy to connect to, they're based on emotions everyone has.

Seems like its more than that, i remember reading a survey about pedophiles and one of the questions asked if non offending pedophiles are better off being dead and around half of the participants said yes.

Also in that survey most people said they would not tolerate a non offending pedophile in their neighborhood or as a friend.

[Meiwaku_Mailing_Girl]

Actually they hate anti's more because anti's do clutter up their social media feeds with depressing hate speech and do create awkward situations which nobody wants to deal with.

What you describe here sounds a lot like what BLueRibbon describes in his latest blog post. So, perhaps what you and Mailing_Girl are debating might actually amount to a difference in cultures. Or perhaps just different social circles.

When I say most people hate "pedophiles", I'm referring to Western cultures, not the global human population.

I know a lot of normies irl who have said negative things about "pedophiles".