Debate Guide: Pedophiles chose their condition

"Sick pedophiles chose to be the way they are."

Pedophilia is an "incurable" sexual orientation just like any other. Present classifications can do nothing to alter this timeless fact. See the research topic, A "cure" for pedophilia?.

This argument also relies on faulty thinking on the issue of free will. Here is a rather eccentric teenage boy saying the right things about free will.