Also I am not siding with pedophiles, rather I stand for equal treatment across all users on the website and otherwise look at it reasonably through game theory. Once you start banning people for something like that the next step comes to ban those they accuse of being that, which then makes it become convenient to accuse people of that label when you otherwise want to target them. Once that's run it's course they'll begin to target those who otherwise seem sympathetic to the cause, all the while spreading that to even those who are simply apathetic to the constant virtue signalling.
This is how witch hunts start, and the only way to prevent such cannibalizing is to handle them as accounts rather than as people. The pedos can also just make a new account using a VPN, so in such a case what does banning even accomplish? In a warped way it even risks making a martyr out of them as the virtue signal types start to take it too far, while keeping them around lets them be openly disliked.
People only began to really be mad at Jim for example when it became apparent to them that he's getting off to their suffering. When they saw that arguing did not work on him they began instead to try to appeal to authority.
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