Yeah that "thought crime" or "pre crime" argument in particular is one that I have only seen pedos use, and use repeatedly to try and defend "none offending" pedophiles.
If you ever see someone using "thought crime" as an argument on this subject it's a huge red flag.
These are the people who think the moral stance is to wait, even in the face of mountains of damning evidence until an actual child is harmed and has their life fucked up.
I don't see how its moral to ignore the evidence until an actual abomination happens, in fact that to me is extremely immoral.
The only difference between a "none offending" pedo and a child molester is time/opportunity, and being caught, these fuckers are a disaster waiting to happen and if the world made any sense these fuckers like Vito that like to "tee hee I'm a pedo" then walk it back, taking advantage of our fucked up legal system, would be nailed to a tree when they make themselves known.
Drawn or live action its aimed at the same audience, it's not the medium of the media it's the intent of the observer.
They should all be hung.