Maybe the 15-year-old isn't a pedophile, but there's a possibility he is. I'm not calling the 15-year-old a pedophile but he's a weirdo. The thing is, is that they shouldn't be equally interested in each other. A 12-year-old being interested in older guys is normal, but a 15-year-old being attracted and interested in a 12-year-old, in a person who's not a teenager yet, is NOT normal. He's in high school and he knows it's wrong, while the 12-year-old is probably in 7th grade and doesn't know it's wrong. And if a 17-year-old is interested in a 12-year-old, his sexual feelings most likely will not change in a year. And in a year he will be 18 and she 13, and he will legally be a pedophile. Not to mention, they're having more than conversations based on the title. So calling the near-adult, a pedophile isn't an unreasonable nor unjustified conclusion. No one is calling you a pedophile or a perv, yet, but they will if continue to be blinded by your own experiences. Not going to lie, you seem weird and creepy to me, based off of how vehemently you're trying to make everyone think of how these older teenagers are not wrong for doing this acts with a literal kid.