Poll: Could Edward Cullen be considered a pedophile or a creep?

[DarkRyter]

I don't know, man. I haven't read the books.

I don't even know how to read.

 

[DoPo]

pe?do?phil?i?a
Sexual feelings directed toward children.

child
A young human being below the age of full physical development or below the legal age of majority.

The age of majority in many places is greater than seventeen.

What you said there is irrelevant. And you can leave off your cherry picked definition that is not incorrect but you twisted it. It's attraction to prepubescent children. What the definition of "child" is according to the law doesn't really matter.

If you spent less time writing condescending posts and more time learning the definitions of the words you're using you might actually be pleasant to communicate with!

Maybe you should have also learned the definition. Because right now you're twisting words for the sole purpose of attacking me.

 

[Cry Wolf]

pe?do?phil?i?a
Sexual feelings directed toward children.

child
A young human being below the age of full physical development or below the legal age of majority.

The age of majority in many places is greater than seventeen.

What you said there is irrelevant. And you can leave off your cherry picked definition that is not incorrect but you twisted it. It's attraction to prepubescent children. What the definition of "child" is according to the law doesn't really matter.

If you spent less time writing condescending posts and more time learning the definitions of the words you're using you might actually be pleasant to communicate with!

Maybe you should have also learned the definition. Because right now you're twisting words for the sole purpose of attacking me.

Actually, they're both the first suggested definition given by Google's dictionary (it's also worth noting I defined Bella as a child both with andwithout the definition of law anyway). It doesn't actually give a secondary definition for paedophile and the other response for child? Well, now tthat would have been a much easier cherry pick:

A son or daughter of any age.

Hey! I still might have cherry picked the definition of paedophile. Let?s have a look at dictionary answers:

a person who is sexually attracted to children
Collins English Dictionary, 10th Edition

an adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children.
American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition

So no, my argument wasn't structured on cherry picking. It's just yours is based on perceived meaning. I had as much intention in attacking you with my corrections as you did with the person you "corrected". We both found particularly annoying behaviours exhibited in another?s post and responded. Next time you want to nitpick somebodies post, please know what you're on about.

 

[lechat]

given the increasing rise in average lifespan i can see a day where some rich 100 year old will one day marry some mindless gold digging model and while it may be a bit creepy i'd say most of us guys would do the same if given the opportunity

 

[TheLogicalGamer]

Technically speaking, I'm just going to suspend all logic and call him White Court Propaganda. He hits everything but the Emotion Eating bit.

 

[Legion]

Well if he was 200 years old and was interested in a woman of 80 then he'd still be interested in somebody around 100 years younger than him. The age gap is not really the issue.

The issue really is "Is it wrong for an adult to feel attracted to a teenager?" or "Does he count as an adult despite his age?"

That said, he is creepy for many other reasons than being a lot older. He takes stalking to a scary level.

 

[tahrey]

What's the local age of majority / consent where Twilight is set? Technically at least he'd be a paedo if Bella is younger than that.

Otherwise, he's just a bit of a creep, maybe verging on Ephebophile. However, it's not like he LOOKS 100-and-some; his own ageing process appears to have been arrested late-teens / early-20s, in which case it's not QUITE as bad. Particularly if he still considers himself to be roughly of that age.

You don't consider either person in a relationship between a 13 and 14 year old as a paedo, do you?

The whole story, however, as far as I can tell, is deeply and terribly fucked up, so I wouldn't actually be surprised if that's later revealed as his actual motivation.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Actually, they're both the first suggested definition given by Google's dictionary (it's also worth noting I defined Bella as a child both with andwithout the definition of law anyway). It doesn't actually give a secondary definition for paedophile and the other response for child? Well, now tthat would have been a much easier cherry pick:

A son or daughter of any age.

Hey! I still might have cherry picked the definition of paedophile. Let?s have a look at dictionary answers:

a person who is sexually attracted to children
Collins English Dictionary, 10th Edition

an adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children.
American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition

So no, my argument wasn't structured on cherry picking. It's just yours is based on perceived meaning. I had as much intention in attacking you with my corrections as you did with the person you "corrected". We both found particularly annoying behaviours exhibited in another?s post and responded. Next time you want to nitpick somebodies post, please know what you're on about.

That's common usage, I believe DoPo is talking about definitions of Pedophilia etc as mental disorders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia

OT, kind of creepy, mainly for the watching her sleep thing. If he's mentally locked in as a 17 year old... don't know why the hell he'd want to be in school, now that's weird.