I do believe pedos have a certain part of their brain damaged, and probably can't help it. Not justifying, I'm not sure they can be fixed, unless chemical castration or wood chipper
It's not brain damage per se, it's guilt. Consider this logic: molesting kids involves inflicting lifelong psychological torture on an innocent deliberately and purely for your own pleasure.
Any person who did that would have to go to great lengths to destroy their own sense of empathy as a survival mechanism. Otherwise they'd wake up the next morning, consider the irredeemable evil they'd done, and suck start a shotgun. Or confess, get chucked in prison, and be murdered by fellow inmates.
Once you commit sufficient evil there's no turning back because the consequences will end you.
Maybe in the case of those abused, a survival switch goes one way or the other, where they perpetuate the abuse, or become a crusader against it
Victims of molestation are far more likely to engage in deviant sexual behavior than the population norm. E.g. female victims of pedos are 23x more likely to identify as lesbians as adults than women who weren't molested. Which supports your theory that victims either repeat it or go to great lengths to avoid the sex who molested them.
It's somewhat similar to what you see for other forms of child abuse. Children of alcoholics are more likely to become alcoholics, but also more likely to become teetotalers because they experienced firsthand how horrible that was and chose to avoid it.
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