> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable
There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same?
Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.
Seems like it would fall under the same heading. Attraction to male sexual characteristics, female sexual characteristics, either, both, nothing, or neither?
I am not saying it fits, but the edge cases in biology get really strange and eventually you need new terms for clarity. Chimera for example can contain one set of male cells and one set of female cells. So you start off with clear separation XX, XY then notice an outlier XXY etc, and suddenly need a new notation XX:XY.
There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same?
Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.