I appreciate the response and no i didn’t mind the wall of text, thank you. I’m still not sure i can say id agree on categorizing some as a disorder and others not. To me age of consent + age of majority are two important lines that must be crossed from a legality standpoint, so the pre/post puberty timeline doesn’t equate into my thinking at all.
But i do agree with you that legality shouldn’t dictate morality, and also agree on not demonizing pedophiles (clinical term) who haven’t abused children. It actually reminds me a bit of Alice in Borderland S3. There is a game where the hidden identity comes into play (S3E2). Ill share the overview below in a spoiler. it isn’t a perfect comparison because of how the game is set up, but it does make you think about the demonizing the hidden identity regardless of whether they did anything bad.
Tap for spoiler: If you don't want to watch the show but want to know the game
Basically the show is based on games where people die if they lose. In this game an unknown number of players out of ~100 are infected as a “zombie” in a card game. Zombies can win any card round by playing their zombie card (infinite use) , and that zombie card will infect the other player (giving them an infinite use zombie card). At the same time, every human also has a single use shotgun card which will quite literally blow the head off of a zombie player. There is also an unknown number of vaccine cards which can be used to cure 1 zombie (destroying their zombie card and making them human). The game is played over 20 rounds where each round you touch another player to challenge them for that round. At the end of the 20 rounds whichever side (humans vs zombies) has the most people wins. The losing side all die. So in this this case, under threat of death, telling someone you’re a zombie or infecting another player to be a zombie can potentially get you killed.
I appreciate the response and no i didn’t mind the wall of text, thank you. I’m still not sure i can say id agree on categorizing some as a disorder and others not. To me age of consent + age of majority are two important lines that must be crossed from a legality standpoint, so the pre/post puberty timeline doesn’t equate into my thinking at all.
But i do agree with you that legality shouldn’t dictate morality, and also agree on not demonizing pedophiles (clinical term) who haven’t abused children. It actually reminds me a bit of Alice in Borderland S3. There is a game where the hidden identity comes into play (S3E2). Ill share the overview below in a spoiler. it isn’t a perfect comparison because of how the game is set up, but it does make you think about the demonizing the hidden identity regardless of whether they did anything bad.
Tap for spoiler: If you don't want to watch the show but want to know the game
Basically the show is based on games where people die if they lose. In this game an unknown number of players out of ~100 are infected as a “zombie” in a card game. Zombies can win any card round by playing their zombie card (infinite use) , and that zombie card will infect the other player (giving them an infinite use zombie card). At the same time, every human also has a single use shotgun card which will quite literally blow the head off of a zombie player. There is also an unknown number of vaccine cards which can be used to cure 1 zombie (destroying their zombie card and making them human). The game is played over 20 rounds where each round you touch another player to challenge them for that round. At the end of the 20 rounds whichever side (humans vs zombies) has the most people wins. The losing side all die. So in this this case, under threat of death, telling someone you’re a zombie or infecting another player to be a zombie can potentially get you killed.