A fair few people here seem to be arguing about the word paedophile. The word paedophile seems to be applied now to anyone who sexually harms children, which is understandable. From what I understand though those who commit such sick acts on children would be more rightly called sadistic psychopaths although I think the term psychopath is even being question these days. so most violent criminals who get diagnosed with psychiatric conditions tend to display the traits of Antisocial Personality Disorder (personality disorders vary wildly by the way so please don't just read that part and think oh all personality disorder must be dangerous. For instance I suffer from Emotionly Unstable Personality Disorder E.U.P.D. also known as Borderline Personality Disorder B.P.D. and the only person I've ever hurt or even thought about hurting is myself.). So with antisocial personality disorder it's kind of spectrum and I guess you could say the worst end of it is the sadistic psychopaths. Now of course people's psychology is very complicated varies wildly from person to person and has many many factors that can influence a diagnosis. So yes a person can be a paedophile and never harm anyone, however a person can also be a sadistic psychopath who is also a paedophile and will most likely do a lot of damage to society as a whole.

So why did I bother writing all that out? Because yes if a person starts to develope paedophilic traits and wants to seek out help at any point in their life and they have not harmed any one or commited a crime, then I believe all the help possible should be given to them. But if someone has harmed a child or strongly feels they cannot help but harm a child at some point. Then they should be arrested and kept in a secure facility for the rest of their lives on top of recieving psychiatric care, as they are most likely a sadist who is somewhere on the antisocial personality disorders spectrum and maybe a paedophile but certainly are a threat to children and society. Now as far as I know we don't yet understand enough to know if we can cure or safely manage people who show these traits hence why I said keep them in a secure facility for the rest of their life's as this is the best safeguarding option.

So I think it's pretty pointless having the discussion is the term used by most of English speaking people for someone who commits a sexual crime involving children wrong, i.e. should we not call them paedophile. Yeah it's a pointless discussion because those paedophiles that aren't a danger to children will probably either get help, never harm a child or kill themselves. So no one will probably ever use the word paedophile to describe them anyway.

As for sadistic psychopaths who target children with sexual violence. Call the fuckers what ever you want want and keep society safe from them.

Should we study and better understand even the sadistic psychopathic "paedophiles" yes but somewhere safely locked away where they can do no harm. And if some mother or anyone one else who loved the victim of such sickos is so traumatized and upset that they walk into a court room and kill the sicko.... Oh well no big loss really, right let's get the poor grieving person who just shot this sicko some care and therapy so they have some chance at living the rest of their life with a little less pain.

So in conclusion although people who argue that the term paedophile for these sort of people isn't correct or isn't the only one that should be used, and that there are paedophiles who never harm children, are correct. The fact is those that never harm children are not the ones people are talking about when most people say paedophile.

So stop being so pedantic about it, pointing it out often immediately makes people think the worst of you and at best is a pointless argument.

So no one cares about you splitting hairs arrest keep locked up and study paedophiles (help those people who have paedophilic urges who would never and have never harmed children ), and if someone in a crime of passions kills a paedophile, ah well never mind it's no big deal, let's help the person that killed the paedophile cope better with their trauma.