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Why is adult-child sex wrong? I'm speaking of children <12 and adults >18 (not that I think that sex with a fourteen-year old is "acceptable" by any means, but I'm trying to stay within the context of these arrests, which I assume involved very young children).
Why is homosexuality wrong? Be specific, don't offer what "some" or "many" homosexuals do. Explain exactly why two people of the same gender engaging in sexual activity of any kind is "wrong" no matter the circumstances.

I should hope that your answers are significantly different.

Umm... be specific - explain exactly why two people of any age or gender engaging in sexual activity of any kind is "wrong" no matter the circumstances? I'll drop my own personal convictions, play the devil's advocate here and say that as long as there's 'informed consent' then there's nothing wrong with it.

Explain exactly why two people of any age or gender engaging in sexual activity of any kind is "wrong" no matter the circumstances?

I can't, because I cannot make a blanket statement that two people of any age engaging in sexual activity is "wrong" because it's far too broad and non-specific. The "any age" might be objectionable, but as it is totally non-sepcific and could apply to two thrity year olds, I cannot create a specific objection to it. In that sense, I cannot say that it's always "not wrong", but I also cannot say that it's "wrong" (just like I cannot define simply "killing a person" as either "wrong" or "not wrong" because I see a difference between breaking into your neighbour's home and killing them and shooting someone who has broken into your home and threatend your life).

Although you keep on claiming that you are against child pornography - your arguments are sure promoting it. Why play devil's advocate? What do you gain by that?

Child pornography is child abuse period. A child is trained by an adult. To use a child for sex ruins the sexual life of that child in the future. It is an abuse and no amount of rationalization changes that.

Just why are people needing to seek deviant forms of sex? Why are they no longer turned on by the normal heterosexual experiences and want to move to something different?

Whether they want to justify it or not, they need to look at what has happened to their own sex drive that makes them want deviant activities? While they are working on this area - I claim that they need to leave the children of this society alone as children are not sex toys.

play the devil's advocate here and say that as long as there's 'informed consent' then there's nothing wrong with it.

Sounds intellectually plausible (sophistry) until one notices there has been no attempt to distinguish between "consent" and "informed consent".

Don't you think that this goes to the heart of the discussion where pedophilia is involved?

We might begin by agreeing on whether those are moral or legal phrases.