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No. Pedophilia means that he enjoys certain things. It makes him happy. For the most part, he does not want what he wants as a terminal value in of itself, but because it makes him happy. He may not opt to be turned into orgasmium. That wouldn't make him happy, it would make orgasmium happy. But changing pedophilia is a relatively minor change. Apparently he doesn't think it's minor enough, but it's debatable.
I still wouldn't be all that tempted in his place, if pedophilia is merely a positive description. There's little advantage in not being a pedophile. However, if this is also implying that he is not attracted to adults, I'd want to change that. I still likely wouldn't get rid of my pedophilia, but I would at least make it so I'm attracted to someone I could have a relationship with without having certain problems.
I'd add that often people tend to valueify their attributes and then terminalize those values in response to threat, especially if they have been exposed to contemporary Western identity politics.
In other words, make his pedophilia a terminal value? That's pretty much the same as terminally valuing himself and considering his pedophilia part of himself.
I... wasn't really clear. People will often decide that things are part of themself in response to threat, even if they were not particularly attached to them before.