George Costanza
A Friendly Liberal
Pedophiles are pedophiles because they like to mess with children.
Nope pedophile is anyone who is sexually attracted to kids. The sexual attraction may not be a choice, but molesting kids is definitely a choice.
I am using the term "pedophile" to describe a child molestor, i.e., a pedophile who acts on his attraction toward children by actually molesting them. I think most people use the term in that fashion.
As such, we are in agreement - that molesting children is a choice, not an irresistable impulse.