Sorry it's going to be a little TMI and I cringed a lot when I typed this message.
But I used to be a teenager who defends pedos. I had met one on an internet forum, he did a "pedophile coming out", he admitted to writing "erotic" stories with children to calm his desire and that he will never touch a single child because 'real children cannot consent and they are dirty'. He was polite and strangely, he seemed convincing, in my head I said to myself "ok he writes pedo stories but if he says that it's for prevent him from touching kids, it's a good thing right? ". I then started to defend pedophiles, because I had compassion for them, and after all they are human, they were born like that and if they said they won't touch any kids, why people would still hate them, right??
Fortunately it did not last long because I've never thought of seeing on the side of the victims, so I read read testimonies and watched several documentaries, one had struck me enough, it was a pedophile man of 30 years, he wanted to be cure and sworn to never touch a child in his life, that he would die a virgin because he didn't want to have sex with adults...
3 years later, he was arrested: He raped a minor, at that time I remembered the pedophile who wrote "erotic" stories, and if he too had already acted out? I will never know.
TL;DR Fuck pedos. They are and will destroying the lives of hundred of thousands children, every time I read a testimony from a victim of pedophilia, I feel guilty because I was on the side of their rapist.
Most teens believe in conspiracy theories, well many believe pedophiles are innocent, pedophiles who want to lower the legal age because teenagers are mature enough to consent, are dangerous.