Content on Here Claiming Teens as Young as 13 Can Be Pedophiles

I came across a post on here claiming that teenagers under the age of 18 can be pedophiles (even though they are equally capable of being targeted since teens are minors themselves just like young children). I assume "teenagers" here means as young as 13.

Why don't the community users here realize how damaging it is to apply such a label to a 13-year-old CHILD? Okay, I wouldn't have problems with 13-year-olds attracted to much younger children being labeled as pedophiles if they ALSO realized that kids *younger than* 13 can also be pedophiles and that 13 is not a magic number all because it's the first that ends in "teen" (especially considering "teenager" is a recent word in the history of the English language and the semantics and linguistics of the numeric system).

I'm dead serious, this community sees such a huge dividing line between 12/13 in viewing a 12-year-old as an innocent little child and a 13-year-old as a full-blown Hormone-Addled Teenager, simply because one age ends in teen and the other doesn't. It's why society needs to start using "adolescent" instead of teenager/teen/teenage/preteen/tween, because they lump 13-year-olds in the same developmental category as 17-year-olds and segregate them from 12-year-olds and think 12-year-olds are completely categorically separate from 13-year-olds and more in line with 9-year-olds.

I hope the community realizes that 12/13 are in the same legal category unlike 17/18 or 20/21.