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I am not disordered Inky....and nor am I a pedophile...and when something/one is broken...it is obvious. Fking kids...is broken in the head. 

Isn't murder and torture just as 'broken'? Why single out pedophilia?

I find it interesting that most people do consider pedophilia to be worse, even though the amount of suffering caused by it might be less.

Simple. Children do not stand a chance against an adult. Mentally, and physically they are not able to defend themselves. They have no awareness of the damage and its effects until much later in life. And those effects are rather prominent and debilitating. Read the research. 

I'd say the effects from getting killed are rather prominent and debilitating too. Why does it matter whether it was a fair fight or not? Suffering is suffering, regardless of whether the victim is a child or an adult.

 I think they feel its worse because that child has to live with what has happened. And parents have to live with the fact that they were too incompetent to have cared for their child and prevent that from happening

My mother used to tell us that if someone ever took us that she would rather see us dead than to be used and tortured and left alive to live with the consequences.

"My mother used to tell us that if someone ever took us that she would rather see us dead than to be used and tortured and left alive to live with the consequences."

That would've scared the shit out of me to hear from my parents. What was you reaction to hearing that?

Mostly shock and sadness.

I understand the instinctive feeling that children are sacred and innocent in a way that adults are not. A child also cannot stand up to an adult, so the (im)balance of power makes the abuse that much more obvious to us. Despite this it often surprises me how easy it is for some people to dismiss the suffering of non-children (or value it far less), especially when pushed about it from an intellectual angle.

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I understand the instinctive feeling that children are sacred and innocent in a way that adults are not. A child also cannot stand up to an adult, so the (im)balance of power makes the abuse that much more obvious to us. Despite this it often surprises me how easy it is for some people to dismiss the suffering of non-children (or value it far less), especially when pushed about it from an intellectual angle.

children didnt have the time to build themselves strong and to have a choice.

adults can prepare, physically and mentally, for things in life. a child doesn't even have that option.

an adult has already lived and created things, had good memories, maybe used some of his potential.

a child can lose its entire future, all of its potential and miss on many things in life.

A more fragile person (be it child or adult) suffer more than a stronger person. I'm not arguing against that. But given that, does a raped child suffer that much more than an adult being tortured? I don't think the answer is obvious, but a lot of people seem to.

Also, why does future potential matter? Do I suffer more if my potential is reduced?