The problem is that in the current environment, "help" tends to result in encouraging people to accept the flaw, rather than trying to fix it. There's a precedent with letting people who are attracted to the same sex pursue those relationships, and we let that happen since no matter how unnatural it might be, nobody's getting hurt if one grown man parks in another grown man's driveway (well, the bottom guy's arsehole probably hurts, but you know what I mean) - but as with many things, nuance gets lost along the way, letting it snowball into a much bigger problem. We're already jumping straight to "accepting" when a young boy doesn't feel like a young boy and giving him whatever drugs will let him look like the nonbinary gendersoup he sees himself as, completely skipping the part where a therapist challenges his beliefs and makes a conscious effort to course-correct the psychological disorder before taking this extreme physical solution.
The aggressive attitude towards paedophiles is the only protection we have from bad actors who genuinely want to have sexual relationships with children pity-partying their way into social approval. Sure, there will be people who aren't actively malicious who get caught in it, and I do wish there were ways to protect people who've been falsely accused since they're the ones who're affected most by the hostile climate - but extending an olive branch to any paedophile, whether they've offended before or not, will start the ball rolling toward the eventual referendum where the general public vote to allow grown adults to legally marry children, because they've been conditioned to tolerate and not question it for generations.
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