Not everyone who wants to kill people will kill people. Not everyone who kills people wants to kill people. In fact most who want to kill people won't do it, and most who kill people don't want to. Doesn't change the fact that soneone who wants to kill people is a greater risk for killing people than those who don't want to do it. Lastly, they are messing about with words, "pedophile" could refer to the official definition of "soneone who is attracted to individuals younger than the age of the onset of puberty (biological adulthood)" or it could refer to the common parlance definition of "anyone who is attracted to individuals younger than the age of consent (legal adulthood)". The two are not interchangeable, but for their convenience they are acting as if they were.
Lastly, they are messing about with words, "pedophile" could refer to the official definition of "soneone who is attracted to individuals younger than the age of the onset of puberty (biological adulthood)" or it could refer to the common parlance definition of "anyone who is attracted to individuals younger than the age of consent (legal adulthood)".
No, they aren't similar but conflating them has been going on for decades as a way of making men afraid to chase after young women of childbearing age for fear that they may be underage, while also dismissing faggots engaging in actual pedophilia.
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