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In reply to the discussion: What if pedophiles were born that way? [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)50. All questions far beyond my limited scope...
A friend and I had a like conversation some years ago. If these disorders (not just pedophiles, but serial killers, arsonists, etc) are indeed an actual illness due to one or another synapse short-circuiting, then our current responses to them may be viewed by an observer some three-hundred years in the future with much the same absurdity as we currently view the burning of witches at the stake three hundred years ago.
Not that I have any idea of whether it is in fact, an illness or merely just a convenient rationalization people make to excuse bad choices... or even if it is an illness, what should be done-- treatment and rehabilitation, prison, both? All questions far beyond my limited scope.
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If it is hardwired, therapy is likely not to work, and repression/change/etc...
yawnmaster
Sep 2012
#34
If it is an orientation, or congenital disorder, and don't act why should they be miserable?
AngryAmish
Sep 2012
#57
if they cant be fixed for want of a better term then they need to be locked away
loli phabay
Sep 2012
#6
we can ask why the hell people make a lot of hurtful choices in life. a lot of them have to do with
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#35
And then because of the secrecy and the way the mind protects itself from trauma and shame . . .
siligut
Sep 2012
#43
that or this is what love is and as an adult goes to extreme means to meet that childhood
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#48
When one starts with the pedophiles own justification for their acts, it is support
Ohio Joe
Sep 2012
#54
Convicted offenders should be locked in a humane facility for life after serving their sentence.
qb
Sep 2012
#11
Sexual orientation can not be changed. However, we DO have control and choices over what to do about
uppityperson
Sep 2012
#13
Didn't read the article but it seems obvious to me that pedophiles are born that way, why choose it?
BoWanZi
Sep 2012
#16
But what about people who don't act on the urge? Who get therapy and avoid children?
Lucy Goosey
Sep 2012
#31
we'd still have kidnapping laws, statutory rape and rape laws.they are essentially criminally insane
Kurovski
Sep 2012
#24
I'm willing to accept that pedophiles may very well be born that way and I realize
Arkansas Granny
Sep 2012
#46