There is too much hate for pedophiles and they should be treated with more respect

Pedophilia is a sexual attraction disorder. Like all sexual attractions, it is not something chosen. Sexual attraction develops from genetic, environmental, and prenatal factors, and most scientists agree that sexual orientation is not something chosen but sexual orientation identity is. [1] [2] Therefore, pedophiles cannot be blamed for having an attraction to children. However, they are often viewed with disgust and malice even if they have never done anything wrong to children. For example, one disabled man wrongly thought to have been a pedophile in Brislington, England, was burned to death by their neighbors in 2013. [3] In addition, majority of pedophiles feel like they are cursed with this attraction, and in fact 76% of pedophiles suffer from Major Depression and 9% from minor depression, which most believe is likely due to having the pedophilic attraction. [3] Many pedophiles just want to die because they cannot stand having that attraction and understand it is wrong. I will argue also that it is wrong to automatically assume a pedophile will be a child molester and it is wrong to assume all child molesters as pedophiles. In a comprehensive study of 3,952 people who reported that they molested a child, 35% were not pedophiles [4] which means it is safe to conclude that about 35% of people who molest children are not pedophiles. It is estimated that 1 to 5 percent of men identify as a pedophile [5]. There have been 1.8 million children who have been victims of sexual assault [6], let's just assume each one had a different perpetrator, but that's not usually the case. That would be 1.8 million child molesters. There are 151,781,326 men in the United States[7], since 1-5% are estimated to be pedophiles, that means 1,517,813-7,589,066 men are pedophiles. If we go back to the 1.8 million number, 35% of them(as shown previously) are not pedophiles. That means 1,170,000 are pedophiles. However, given that this assumes that it's one perpetrator per victim, this is very over-estimated. In this study, it was found that half of child molesting pedophiles repeat their offense [8] therefore that 1.1 million number can be cut in half to 550,000, which is still an over-estimate since we also need to take into account how many times the offenders repeated. Let's just use the 550,000 number for now. That means that out of the 1.5 to 7.5 million pedophiles in the US, 550,000 actually molest children. In other words, around 33% to as low as 7.3% of pedophiles even molest children, and again, that is an over-estimate. Therefore, a vast majority of pedophiles do not even molest children, and I believe that the hatred for pedophiles that people have is therefore unfounded. Rather than directing the hate to the pedophile, it should be directed specifically to people who molest children; it is wrong to direct hate to people who have not necessarily done anything wrong, and majority of pedophiles do not do anything wrong. For pedophiles, it is often not possible to seek therapy for their psychiatric disorder because of mandatory reporting laws, and the fact that many therapists do not want to or are not trained to help pedophiles with their disorder. [9] In addition, most may not even feel comfortable with telling someone about this, I know I wouldn't if I was a pedophile, because of the very negative stigma there is about pedophiles that almost everyone has in society. How is a pedophile expected to seek help for their disorder when so many people demonize them before they've even molested any child? I believe I have sufficiently argued my case and now turn this over to my opponent. Sources: [1]http://pediatrics.aappublications.org... [2] https://books.google.com... [3] http://www.vice.com... [4] http://www.childmolestationprevention.org... (see page 9) [5] https://www.psychologytoday.com... [6] https://www.nsopw.gov... [7] http://www.census.gov... [8] http://www.paedofiles.com... [9] https://www.psychologytoday.com...