Because the current use of the word reinforces stigma around pedophilia and makes it less likely for people with pedophilic disorder to reach out for help for the fear they would be outed and treated the same as actual child abusers.

This is a semantic argument. Words change all the time; it's OK. It's especially common for clinical words to move into the pubic domain where they loose their clinical usefulness and even become pejorative. We just need a new word to describe the thing you're talking about.

There is no power in the spoken syllables or the written configuration of the word pedophile. Any other word will do just as well. Trying to prevent language shift is wrestling the tide.

Certified lover-boy? Certified child molester WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP

For many, pedophiles, or whatever other minor-philes are akin to Nazis or something else universally reviled.

There's no perceptive redemption or discussion.

For many, including me, that's fine.

Consent is mandatory, anything outside it is a done discussion. I understand the discussion on precrime, as related to non offending attraction, but for many the mere thoughts earn the end of tolerance.

As such, policing language to be tolerant of that group is a non starter.

Edit Do note I never called for lynchings or purges or minority report arrests. The law should cover all equally.

Seems the sort of thing a Pedo would say. Rapists should be neutered, especially anyone who raped a kid..

I don't believe in calling them map or whatever stupid term we are using to enable them.