Lots of them are predators themselves. It's just harder to tell with them than most doth protest too muchers because the population hates them so much that visceral anger towards pedophiles is the norm. Some are victims as well, not that that means they can't be a perpetrator too.

Simultaneously wanting to drive victims through the mud or lower age of consent laws is a great indicator which side they fall under. Needless to say pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is.