Should convicted pedophiles receive the death penalty?

Nah that's like saying every gay person should be killed or every bisexual, or dare I say it every heterosexual so you may as well kill everyone. You cannot help or choose your sexuality any more than you can choose the colour of your eyes, I say this as a straight man.

Trying to rehabilitate them is just like saying lets send a lesbian to gay conversion camp, you've admitted yourself they cant control their attractions. Also no one said anything about just having harmless attractions to underage kids, its about those who are convicted for it. If someone distributes or produces Child pornography they too should be given the death penalty although I guess for possession it should just remain jail time. You realise the cost of long term prison sentences and psychological help is significantly more costly and isn't guaranteed to have any effect. For the sake of argument just assume this person is convicted and 100% proven (also this isn't about the system and flaws of the death penalty, its about using the death penalty against someone who's convicted as a pedophile.)

Should they be shot dead?

Paedophilia - that is, being attracted to underage people - is already legal. How could a system of law think to police peoples' minds?

round them all up into concentration camps and use gas chambers. + mass graves

I would prefer prison time as opposed to the death penalty but our prisons are simply and ironically unjust.

If some dirty scum of the Earth piece of **** dares touch my kid I would want them dead.

So yes, if they are convicted with 100% undeniable proof, they don't deserve to breathe the same air. Why waste resources on them? Give them a nice little room with three meals a day? Although I have heard how child molesters get treated in prison when the fellow inmates find out, so they can spend a night

What you are talking about here is vengeance, not justice. We send people to prison with both the intent of separating them from society and rehabilitating them. Pedophiles and molesters, as disturbing as they may be, should not to be murdered in retribution and out of spite by people who apparently cannot control their feelings either.

Ours already does! What is 'hate speech' if not 'thought crime'?

Anyone's free to think violent and hateful thoughts. There's no law against that, because it'd be injust and also unenforceable. That's the difference between hate speech and the frightening spectre of "thought crime".

Hate speech and 'hate thought' are not particularly far apart, however. 'Hate' can also be a somewhat subjective and easily abused category. I've always seen action (which is ultimately what causes the harm) as being the only step really deserving of state intervention.

Short of things like libel, contempt of court and the like, speech should go unhindered by the law.

Like the Nazis did to the gays?

So...raping/sexually assaulting a child is ok (because that's exactly why convicted paedophiles get...well...convicted) but you draw the line at murder?

Mkay

I think its very dangerous to brand paedophilia as a sexuality. It's a mental illness.

Could it be said to be a mental illness that changes sexuality? In effect that's what it is I guess...?

No, it's a mental illness.

If a mental illness changes your sexual preferences, you can't say "You don't have those preferences it's an illness."

Seems kinda like telling an extremely depressed person that they don't actually feel bad, it's an illness, even though the illness blatantly changes their mental state.