Mican, this was your argument in another thread, arguing that supposed transgendered people could not be classified as having a mental disorder because not every transgender has been shown to suffer from their mental condition:
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"A mental disorder has a negative effect on EVERYONE who suffers from it. If transgenderism is a mental disorder, that means that every single transgendered person, who would "suffer" from transgenderism if it were a disease, has some kind of problem ("clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior"). Obviously those who attempt suicide (successful or not) has a problem of some kind but then most transgendered people don't attempt suicide and therefore one cannot use a minority attempting suicide as the basis of saying that they ALL have a problem and therefore they all suffer from some disorder. If they don't all suffer from some disorder, then transgenderism cannot be considered a disorder.
It's safe to say that it has not been shown that every transgendered person suffers from a clinically significant disturbance in their cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior."
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Why are you unwilling to apply the same reasoning to pedophiles? Not every pedophile has been proven to have a significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. So by your logic, pedophilia is not a mental disorder, right?
If a pedophile swears off touching children and isn't bothered by their attraction or denial of acting on it, and is completely okay with that, then your above argument would mean they do not have a mental disorder. Right?
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