But we've also got pretty sustainable evidence that many of those cases are also a result of a porn addiction instead of someone wanting to fuck a kid IRL (IE; Vaush for example),
I agree with everything you've said, and I'm actually glad you wrote it in the manner that you did, because I feel like a lot of people miss this important aspect.
With that being said, I think what is noteworthy is while I don't believe that
everyone who has
ever consumed lolicon (or closest equivalent) is by nature is a pedophile, I think everyone who defends it
is.
I've genuinely don't believe, in my own opinion, there's a person who exists on this earth who defends lolicon so hard, that genuinely
doesn't have an interest in real kids.
Vaush never publicly defended lolicon to a degree that the people in this thread do, actually occasionally argued against it in some cases - It's because he recognized it was out of being a porn addicted degenerate - that it was inherently shameful, taboo, gross, etc. The horse cock was unronically easier for him to accept publicly and defend than the lolicon. I think that if you're so deep into consuming lolicon where you're publicly defending lolicon... Let's be so for real for a moment, it's probably because what they find "degenerate" to that level (shameful , taboo, etc) is real kids, and why their arguments are around fictional kids, because it's "less horrible", it's not something they find shameful (even though they obviously should).
A man who is defensive over drawings or AI of children is a man who's too comfortable with making that argument, and while you can chop it up to the degenerate mindset pipeline, this thread isn't really interesting because it's about porn degenerates who happen to be into lolicon or it's closet equivalent, but the ones who defend it - because it's probably more about being into kids.
I think everyone who defends lolicon is 100% a real life pedophile, I genuinely can't believe a world where this isn't the case, but I recognize not everyone who consumes it is - even if I personally find it one of the most foul things to consume.