That (edit for clarity) LEADS TO validating their “it’s just a sexuality, and the abuser recognised it in those kids and brought it out” argument, which is one of the ones that got made on here and which I have seen elsewhere. There is a drive to make pedophilia a sexuality like any other sexual preference, it’s been going on for decades but has renewed itself recently with the rise of identity politics.
There is more could be said on that but it verges into the topic of politics which is now not permitted as a topic for discussion on here: BALG RULES - Please read them! - #80 by Lady_Eva
Btw @anon48532061 I haven’t been posting much recently, sorry if it looks like I’m jumping on you, just posting with my member hat on, this activism angle is a topic I know a lot about, here’s Britain’s now-Prime Minister for example:
And this is still happening, until recently medium.com had a whole section for poor oppressed pedophiles to talk, basically, about how society needed to accomodate them, here’s one example:
3: Pedophilia Is Gross/A Mental Illness/A Sickness
Actually, this is a misconception that is perpetrated by the media as well as well-meaning psychology groups: Sexual attraction does not give someone a disorder, and a disorder is defined as something that significantly interferes with someone’s day-to-day life. That interference can happen in a variety of ways: Difficulty with social interaction, with learning, with basic function, etc. A disorder in the mental health world means that someone is having troubles.
This is the link, now seems they have reconsidered and removed it, but they had a whole category as you can see from the URL (in bolded text): https://medium.com/pedophiles-about-pedophilia/your-arguments-against-pedophiles-debunked-ae017a199006?source=collection_home—2------0----------------. Some of those arguments were leading into “criticising pedophiles should be a hate crime” which is murky territory indeed.
My tl;dr and very much back on the topic is that while a massive movement like this is indeed comprised of unique individuals with all the things you mention, the overall drive is a thoughtform and that thoughtform can be attacked in various ways, so the rationalisations of the individual pedophile is less important than the fact their outcomes are aimed at altering legislation, infiltrating and corrupting law enforcement and the judicial and child welfare systems, and so on.
So that does give a clearly defined target, everyone is unique so the same argument could be made for any magick that affects a group.