No.

Uh-uh, full stop.

You DO NOT have the right to accuse people of a serious condition like that without any credentials. Oh it’s a fact, huh? So where’s your proof? Because all I see is a load of shit pal. A pedophile is someone who is attracted to prepubescent children. This is not up for debate. And here is MY proof.

You know what this is from? From the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Which is used by psychologists to diagnose mental illnesses. It has been organized and reviewed by hundreds of experts in mental health. You are not a psychologist. Which is obvious because you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how this works. If you do, show me your creds. But I doubt you have any of the proper education to be making claims like this. Pedophiles do not choose to have their attraction. And one does not magically become one just because they like a fictional ship. What if someone likes a ship when they’re young, do they all of a sudden have a paraphilic disorder when they hit eighteen years of age if they continue to ship it, even though their actual sexuality lacks any interest in minors? No. Of course not, that’s fucking stupid. Just like you sound right now. You are NOT qualified to accuse people of such a thing without knowing anything about them beyond their ships.

And it’s not actively harming others, a piece of art or a story created by some random person on the Internet isn’t hurting anyone. It’s not real, it’s just pixels sitting on a screen. No one is making you see it, it’s not twisting your arm, it can’t do anything. PEOPLE choose to hurt others. PEOPLE choose to break the law and do horrible things. Since when has “I got the idea from X” been a viable excuse? It isn’t. It never has been and never will be. Just because Willy Crackhead is so stupid he might see a drawing on the Internet and decide to copy it, that doesn’t mean that drawing shouldn’t have been made. It means hey, there’s obviously a very sick person out there who needs to be apprehended and rehabilitated. Or hey, concept, there are just people that are so fucked up they’ll find ANYTHING to justify what they do or to manipulate others. Fanart isn’t the only thing used for this. You can use ANYTHING. There was actually a court case regarding this that you should probably look at.

The Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, in which it was decided by the Supreme Court that although child molesters might use virtual child pornography to seduce children, “there are many things innocent in themselves, however, such as toys, movies, games, video games, candy, money etc. that might be used for immoral purposes, yet we would not expect those to be prohibited because they can be misused.” The First Amendment draws a distinction between words and deeds, and does not tolerate banning of mere words simply because those words could lead to bad deeds. Furthermore, things like fanart that depict what are clearly distinguishable from REAL children, is not illegal because it “records no crime and creates no victims by its production.” In the end, the CPPA, or Child Pornography Prevention Act, simply outlawed “computer-generated images virtually indistinguishable from real children in sexually explicit conduct” along with, of course, actual child pornography with real people in it. Virtually indistinguishable. Referring to something like extremely realistic CGI that could make someone believe it’s real. Not fucking stylized anime or otherwise fanart that looks nothing like an actual person.

Here it is if you want to read about it: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/535/234.html

So there are my sources. Show yours or shut the fuck up and get out of our tags. Sincerely, an asexual who has no fucking sexual interest in children and never will because wow the things I like in fiction have no relation to things I ACTUALLY support, hot damn what a concept.

Y’know, the other day I was playing Assassin’s Creed and really enjoyed stabbing people in the neck with the hidden blade. I guess… I wanna murder people now?