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Originally Posted by Teddiursa of the Sky
The issue is not cultural, unless you consider the psychological health of children a cultural issue. I have no problem with pedophiles unless they actively violate children. I should have clarified my previous statement further by including the fact that homosexual intercourse, when practiced between two consenting adults, is harmless and therefore should not be considered immoral.
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It is cultural in a sense that there are cultures to which sexuality in children is permitted. There has been a multitude of Anthropological studies on African tribes to which this is in action. It'll be folly to state that there isn't a cultural issue to that.
However, I said "sociocultural issue". That is, there is a secondary component to it, the one that you are talking about there. It's not just a cultural issue, but also one that involves us as a society. This is where you have mental health of children to consider. If this isn't widely accepted, then how society has structured itself dictates how children would behave to a certain degree. In our society, it is much more likely that the children will be scarred and require psychological treatment.
Again, that's what I'm getting at: a genetic predisposition does nothing, since that would be thoughtpolicing. Acting upon a genetic predisposition is why we persecute pedophilia. We don't persecute homosexuality in the same way is not because of a genetic predisposition, but because homosexuality is by definition not unethical.