So let me try to explain so that you don´t have to be disturbed (but probably will be either way). I don´t think pedophiles need help in the sense of chemically castrating them. Their sexual attraction is wrong within our society, but it´s still their sexual attraction. Maybe I´m just better in putting myself in the shoes of others, but I´d *hate* to have my sexual attraction/drive be taken from me. Simply, because masturbation is fun, too. Being forced into being an asexual person sounds horrible to me. Maybe not to you?
Where pedophiles need help is in terms of tolerance/acceptance. Read: Not tolerating/accepting child molesters, but those people that have done nothing and don´t plan on doing something. Plagiarize already mentioned it and I can but repeat: We have to encourage those people to keep their urges under control by accepting them as one of us, instead of scaring them into hiding, where at best they keep supressing their urges and lead a terrible life in constant for of being found out, or at worst let loose of their control, because they feel, and no wrongly so, mistreated.
I cannot emphasize enough how much I hate intolerance, and seeing how so much hate is directed to a group that is already miserable as is, is hard to bear. If I was born 20 years earlier, you´d see me defend homosexuals. 20 years earlier, and I´d defend women. Even earlier and I´d defend african americans. Intolerance sucks, and what sucks even more about it is that with each new generation of human beings, we forget that there´s always *a next step*, the next in line of intolerances. Right now we´re talking pedophiles. If that´s done, we might start arguing about animals. If that´s done, we might start debates about machines´/A.I.´s rights. Just because we live in a world where we´ve just come to accept homosexuality doesn´t mean we can pat ourselves on the back and stop thinking about intolerance.
As for your second sentence, you possibly interpreted my reply in the most negative, unfair way. I wouldn´t let my son live next to a pedophile´s house because I´m a bad, evil person. I trust people, I believe them, and I always try to see the best in other people. Little example: When I sell stuff on ebay and the auction ends on sunday, I´ll always send the stuff I sold on Monday morning. My brother recently called me dumb, because it´s such a risk not to first wait for your money to arrive. But I don´t care. So far, it always worked out fine and I don´t want to start mistrusting people. That makes me possibly naive, but don´t paint me as some kind of evil sicko. I won´t accept that.