In my opinion, treating paedophiles harshly and threatening them with death and prison sentences doesn't help solve the issue.
The issue is that there is a group of people who are attracted to children. Some of these people will seek to behave illegally to pursue these desires.
The moral thing to do seems to be that we punish the child molesters and threaten the others as a deterrent right?
So tell me, where do the victims fit into all this? You know, the children.
Do you suggest we scare the **** out of paedophiles so they hide away and end up abusing someone? Or only seek them out when they've already hurt them?
For a victim of child abuse it's too little too late once they've been targeted.
Accepting that paedophilia is an involuntary feeling and offering them ways to cope with it (so they do not seek out children) can only be a good, albeit difficult, thing to do?
As for the child sex dolls/simulated porn, I would need solid evidence from psychologists, doctors and scientists to prove that it had a significant success rate. It's sick and disgusting, but I'd rather a paedophile exhaust himself on inanimate things than real children.
It's easy to get emotional and angry about it but the way we approach it now isn't working is it?