Pedophilia should not be punished
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Pedophilia definition:
Sexual activities between adult and a child
n. an obsession with children as sex objects. Overt acts, including taking sexual explicit photographs, molesting children, and exposing one's genitalia to children are all crimes. The problem with these crimes is that pedophilia is also treated as a mental illness, and the pedophile is often released only to repeat the crimes or escalate the activity to the level of murder.
- 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse;
- Self-report studies show that 20% of adult females and 5-10% of adult males recall a childhood sexual assault or sexual abuse incident;
- During a one-year period in the U.S., 16% of youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
- Over the course of their lifetime, 28% of U.S. youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
- Children are most vulnerable to CSA between the ages of 7 and 13.
When a little girl feels strong desire for an adult, nobody should prevent her to make such a relationship. You cannot decide for the little girl if she wants it or not.
The violent hate that you spread against pedophiles serves you no great value. Obviously you think all pedophiles are evil monsters and not human beings with love and care. Little girl is not your private slave.
You cannot demonize her relationship with an adult if she says she actually wants it. Who are you to violently take away such a precious choice from her...Who are you to tell her that she is wrong...
You want to destroy their love by ending it. Love is strong, cannot be defeated, as it always rises to fight another battle.
- Pro restates points with a side of ad hominem.
- Pro did not prove, in a general front, that all pedophiles should be considered innocent, especially with no refutations on statistics of their crimes.
- Just because it is a choice doesn't mean it is automatically valid, especially since the choice arguably destroys them and they are unaware yet of the negative impacts of their thoughts. This argument fails.
- Pro failed to uphold the BoP. Con successfully dismantled this "argument".
There are some people who seem to belive that children cannot feel pleasure from adults and that children should be considered a property. To these people we provide the greatest opposition.
Children want adults, just like they want other children.
When I see the rights of pedophilia being so violently attacked by a large group of very aggressive people, I feel the overwhelming need to act to protect those rights securing their existence from those who know not for the pity.
You talk against rape, yet when pedophiles are sent to prison they are often raped and beaten, even when they didnt hurt the child.
- The "sexual desire" is possible at a young age, or even that, is a healthy desire and should be fulfilled.
- To sacrifice the lot for the interest for a group that barely exists is a just act.
You want to stop these desires at children. Hence, you first convince yourself that these desires dont exist. Then you want to convince children in these lies. Then you want to convince me.
- Never get any good grades if they find this subject unfun, because they disallow themselves to stop having fun.
- Allow themselves to get hurt in ways they did not know was possible, cases mentioned above.
- Even rape random strangers on the street every time they feel sexually motivated, and possibly get themselves hurt because almost nobody likes that.
- Eventually be a failure at life. That is what Pro wants?
If a man is in relationship with a little girl and does nothing against her will, you should really reconsider your hatred towards the man.
Opposing people like you is the sign of ultimate struggle in which I fight to give power to little girls, something which many dont understand.
- Prove that the ONLY effective group according to Pro in his arguments at least, which are children who actively try and voluntarily to build romantic(and even sexual) relationships with older people, is large enough to have an impact, or at least shown to exist, after continuous demand of such evidence.
Most child molesters get through to their victims by using the victim grooming process. Here is the overview of its stages:
- The predator establishes a nonsexual relationship with the child
- The victim’s family gets tricked into trusting the pedophile and leaving the child alone with them
- The relationship gradually becomes sexual in nature
- The child remains silent and fulfills the predator’s demands out of guilt
A typical pedophile offender will commit around 117 crimes, while serial predators can go well beyond that if they aren’t discovered and arrested.
Attacking the beautiful relationship of child-adult with desperate degradation is the evil.
You claim she has no ability to properly choose. So you conclude that you should make this choice instead of her.
Every destroyed child-adult relationship is the impossible pain that can never be healed.
Helping pedophiles and children is the great achievement that cannot be disregarded by any means.
Args:
Con consistently demonstrates multi-faceted logical approaches to upholding their burden of proof, offering more than enough evidence to demonstrate that at least some pedophiles should be punished. While there is a lack of clarity in regards to the specifics of the resolution, pro offers almost nothing more than assertions and ad hominems against con. I don't think I have to get very specific here, Con's argument that pedophiles usually hurt people, and we should punish people that hurt others in this way - is simple and works in this context.
Sources:
Con is the only one to use sources, further, the sources are backing up their argument in a way that creates impact to their case.
Spelling/Grammer:
A rare case where there is a substantial difference in grammar and spelling, to the point where Pro's ultimate point is hard to understand, some examples for readers: "When a little girl feels strong desire for an adult, nobody should prevent her to make such a relationship. You cannot decide for the little girl if she wants it or not. You have no right to tell a little girl that she should not have relationship with an adult. Little girl has her power of will." From pro's first round argument
Conduct:
Pro repeatedly called Con's arguments "evil" and said they wanted to make little girls their slaves... I think this is very clear.
Yeah, this is one of my best debates ever.
5 days left. Votes anyone?
Bump, this needs votes.
what the hell
No. But if you forfeit, I dont care.
This has to be satire.
After this one is over, yes.
Can we also have this debate?
You should really stop your violent hate by doing something more useful instead.
Are you even trying? Well, makes sense for such little defense for such a topic because you aren't supposed to defend it.
Dont worry. This will be excellent.
At this point I believe you are either an alt of Type1 or an alt of Wylted. Even if you are not, the fact that you believe in this shows, and this isn't what we call exactly "good".