Being a pedophile is not morally wrong

Thank you Canuckleball. I apologize for making the assumption that your position was dependant on the idea of choice and intention. This was based on the use of the term choice in relation to their "evilness", and how the fact that it was a disorder was of key importance. Some clarification would be much appreciated. I do not use utilitarianism in my debate. It is understandable that such a message came across, but the greatest quantity of happiness for the greatest quantity of people is irrelevant to this debate. Instead, I am working upon the shared assumption that child abuse is wrong, alongside the assumption that pedophillia should be treated medically. I am applying consequentialist reasoning to this, because then this is a simple matter of how good and bad things are, and we don't have to get caught up in virtue or deontological ethics. I never stated that the existence of people who are pedophiles is immoral, because that would require looking into the value of a person, and that's irrelevant to the debate. I stated that the specific act of being afflicted with pedophilia is immoral, in a similar sense to how being afflicted with depression is immoral. I am not stating that it would be moral to eliminate those with either disorder, I am saying that the presence of depression is immoral; that being depressed is, in and of itself, unethical. The same reasoning applies to pedophiles. Pedophiles aren't simply statistically more likely to abuse children, pedophilia is an active force that could easily be viewed as causing the immoral acts. People who have plans and intentions to murder people aren't just more likely to act unethically, the plans and intentions themselves are immoral, as they work to cause murders. Pedophilia may not definitively and in all cases actually come to its fruition, but it very often does. Being black does not cause one to commit crimes. Long term consequences can not be accounted for in this debate, as they are fully unknown to both of us. Murder (with exceptions of self defense and whatnot) is immoral. One can murder, and by extention manage to save the lives of many people. This does nothing to change the fact that the generalized action of murder is wrong. Similarly, if being a pedophile helped a person cure pedophilia, we both have (more or less) agreed that such an action would be good. This wouldn't prove that pedophillia is not, on balance, immoral. Being a Nazi is immoral. One can still be a Nazi in such a fashion that is morally good. if I were to state that people have ten fingers, I'm sure you would agree, dispute that fact not being without exception. My opponent still seems to think that I am of the opinion that pedophiles are evil or immoral, when this is not so. I do not think that those who have littered are immoral or evil people, but I still might think that the act of littering is immoral. Ghandi may have done some immoral things, but that has little effect on how morally positive his presence was. My opponent sees pedophilia as something that is should be cured. The logical confusion being that curing pedophilia and being rid of it is positive. We can deduce from this that my opponent is of the opinion that the presence of pedophilia is negative. I am making the conclusion from this, that pedophillia is immoral. I am further concluding that any action that brings about pedophilia is immoral in that regard. Being pedophilic increases pedophilia, and is therefore immoral. The act of being pedophilic is not intentional, but is never the less unethical. I also would like to emphasize that the abuse of children is not the only negative consequence of being a pedophile. As a disorder, it is defined as having a negative impact upon the sufferer's behalf. We can certainly see this, as society acts punitively towards it. If my opponent thinks that all of these negative effects of being a pedophile are nonexinstant, or possibly thinks that pedophilia has some sort of positive effect, I would like to know. I await my opponent's response.