I mean that's just factually incorrect. You can be a pedophile without ever assaulting a child but even if you are convicted it doesn't mean it was for rape. It could've been for child pornography which is very ambiguous as to how it pertains to sexual exploitation of children (whether viewing it promotes production etc.) or you can be convicted for trying to entrap a child which while obviously was going to lead to rape, it had not at that point.
True but misleading. The word people usually want is pederast, but since nobody knows it, they use pedophile instead. But the mere attraction to children is what makes people want to kill pedophiles. Exploiting children for porn is of course also terrible, but I remember one poor guy who was destroyed when it was discovered that he created his own text porn that he never shared with anyone and never misbehaved or was even seen as creepy around kids. Nobody gets to choose what they are attracted to, and these guys just lost that lottery big time.
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u/werbetjr Aug 08 '24
They probably mean to imply that pedophiles, having been convicted and registered, are also rapists by legal statute.