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Unfortunately, in my experience, remaining calm while discussing pedophilia is completely impossible for most people. It's one of the reasons why cracking down on pedos is the go-to excuse for taking away your rights; because it's rare to see any push-back when it's used.
The slippery slope fallacy is just that, a fallacy, and it's not a valid reason to take the opposite extreme position. Just because something can be taken too far, does not mean it has to; because honestly? Anything can be taken too far. We don't have to pick one side or the other, we can choose a happy medium between two extremes.
I'm sure the regressive left would agree with you, with the small caveat of what label they think should see you "ostracized and fired". In any event though, what you're arguing is moot in my opinion; the public does not want to know about your sexual fetishes, whatever they might be. That sort of thing should be kept on the down-low regardless; but unfortunately, the regressive left and its obsession with identitarianism encourages the opposite, which in my opinion is at the root of what you're complaining about. They should let go of this idea that every part of them needs to be accepted by everyone else; it's never going to happen, and trying to force it will just make things worse.
That aside; what makes pedophilia so special? Snuff, guro, vore, cannibalism, mind control; these and many more are all monstrous fetishes, from an objective point of view, and yet nobody seems to care about them nearly as much as they do pedophilia. They all have their own communities, and yet I haven't seen hide nor hair of an advocacy group pushing the idea that you need to accept them as "normal".
What you're suggesting is nothing short of a witch hunt. We shouldn't be punishing people for having thoughts we don't like, because we don't want to be punished for having thoughts someone else doesn't like.
No, because nowhere do I or did I suggest that we go around actively looking for paedophiles!