It's ok to not be sarcastic about some things

In this example, the allegations here stem from inappropriate contact with minors in the age range of 15 to 17 years in a NSFW Discord server.

The problem is that in cases such as this, they’re not children so much as not yet adults. “Teenagers” used to be the common parlance for this age group and they are particularly interested in sexuality, while not having the cognitive tools or maturity to recognize or protect themselves from actual adults that will sexually abuse them.

The major issue in conflating “children” with “teenagers” is that these are distinct developmental periods in which the latter will literally beg for sex from adults who should not be involved in it with them. This is why we moderate and protect the sexuality of this age group - to mitigate the bad decisions that result from an intensely hormonal developmental period paired with increased cognitive and social liberty.

Teenagers are horny, and as such they need additional protections from people like groomy 20-something game devs. But infantilization that seeks to erase teenage sexuality and autonomy does nothing to protect them.

IIRC the majority of child molesters are non-pedophilic in the clinical sense and I'd imagine this is even more true for post-pubescent minors. Additionally there have been neurological findings that differentiate offending vs non-offending pedophiles, mostly to do with risk-taking behaviors (as in, pedophiles that are generally risk-avoidant are also less likely to offend). So just being a pedophile might not be as strong of a prognostic factor for predicting abuse as one would think.

I mean the Epstein class made sure the CIA and G7 only captured child rapists below a certain income.

there is approximately that same % chance of them exploiting that power

I think that's a partially false equivalence. Acting on those feelings would require that you be OK with harming another person, and a child, no less. Most people aren't. The overlap comes from the fact that the rich and powerful often are, because that's how they got rich a powerful.

But the same way a normal person can be attracted to adults, but have no desire to rape, most pedofiles will have no desire to hurt anyone. (That, not the law, is why I think it's so rare).

Not hurting anyone and respecting consent is the easiest thing ever. Have you ever be so horny you'd fail at those things? I haven't. And I am a VERY horny person.

Nothing about pedofilia changes that part of how human self-determination works.

You only get the worst of the worst when the type of person that would rape, overlaps with pedofilia. The ones that act on it, DO choose. They are the literal worst among us.

them being in the DMs of their favorite video game creators.

THE most dangerous part of Roblox. The child dev studios led by adults are fucking horrifying. "Developers" becoming well-known Roblox game creators has given credibility to some absolutely horrible people to be around kids in ways that should never have been allowed.

And Roblox basically enables it with their Roblox -> Private Discord integration.

Because these child-labour powered "dev studios" is how they get their freaking games!

The same %

It goes up with money and power. Why else is literally every single billionaire a pedophile?

Hasnt the minecraft-type community (and i'd consider terraria a minecraft-type game. 2d, side scroller, and arcadey yes, but still a minecraft-type) always had a problem with people being creepy towards kids?