@Aldo2 Jesus faced the full brunt of Roman law despite not actually doing anything wrong. Pilate only crucified Him because of the mob, who he even asked if they would rather crucify an actual criminal, and asked if they would be willing to accept a curse on their people forever. Pilate washed his hands because he knew Jesus did nothing wrong, but felt like his hands were tied (regardless of whether they actually were or not).

People are not arrested on the assumption that they are pedophiles. Nobody is arrested on assumption. People may be perhaps targeted because of it, but an arrest only comes if the state believes that they can actually charge the person in question for doing something illegal, like trying to meet up with kids for sex or owning/distributing CP. If you go to a therapist in a state that requires therapists to report crimes and tell them that you are attracted to little children, and that it causes you a great amount of distress, but have never acted on it then you still have the disorder but you will not be prosecuted.

Pedophilia is a classified disorder. Objectively. You may think something else, but I am speaking from a point of law as you seem to be ascertaining that being a pedophile is illegal. Having a disorder is not illegal, acting on it is.

In order to even have a diagnosis of being a pedophile from a psychiatrist, you need to have either acted on it (with age ranges for minors affected by pedophilia) OR it must cause distress. If a person who is attracted to underage girls does not act on it and it does not cause any distress, they are *by definition* not a pedophile.

I, perhaps incorrectly, understood you to be knowledgeable enough to know this. That's why I assumed that you already knew being a pedophile (in the sense of being attracted to children or in the objective sense of having it diagnosed) was legal. To me, it seemed like if you knew it was legal and were tying a conversation about it to child rape, then calling for it to be made legal, it would stand to reason that you wouldn't want just the ability to have that attraction/disorder to be legal, but also the ability to act on that attraction. I apologize for assuming malice where there was just ignorance.