I feel no empathy for child enthusiasts and I shouldn't have to.
so if i gave you a gun and put a child enthusiast in front of you and you had the option to legally shoot him, would you? if you don't empathize with the child enthusiast, would you empathize with their family who just lost a son/daughter/brother/sister/father or mother or would you expect them to be just as nonchalant about it as you? do they deserve that loss?
thats the slippery slope of empathy; you can honest to god believe that you empathize with victims and don't with child enthusiasts, but in reality you empathize with both or neither. that same lack of empathy that you feel towards a child enthusiast is the exact lack of empathy they feel towards their victims. so if you really want to say you have no empathy then understand the weight of those words before you say them
nobody should have to feel anything. im not saying you should feel empathy or lack thereof. what you should feel is a full and wholistic understanding of what it means to say 'child enthusiasts deserve to die' and the consequences of another human being having their basic human rights violated. sure they didn't understand it and that's why they went out and did what they did, but do you want to live that way too?
To call say that people are stupid for not feeling empathetic to a group of harmful individuals is an awful take.
nobody's stupid for feeling a lack of empathy, they're stupid for feeling superior because they have a lack of empathy. at the end of the day normalizing hate against child enthusiasts does nothing but lead to child enthusiasts slipping under the radar and racking up a higher victim count without ever being caught. don't empathize with the child enthusiasts, empathize with the potential victims people create by refusing to encourage those with creepphilic idealization to seek help.
Not every victim thinks the same
well im the type of victim who knows that if the girl who molested me on the playground was encouraged to seek help rather than shamed into silence, i wouldn't have been a victim in the first place.