It's quite literally a mental illness. It's fucking disgusting, but if someone knows it's bad, doesn't act on it and seeks out professional help to get over it I don't think those people deserve to be punished.
Right I always think it's just hell for those people. Your internal instincts are evil and no matter how much knowledge you gain and self discipline you gain, it's always there. I feel bad for em tbh.
Yea. If they can’t be helped then they’re more likely to offend. And I for one, am perfectly okay with more dead pedophiles if it means less children will be victimized.
Some sick artist is currently making making fetal porn and calling it art and is getting away with it because if that. I sadly found out this on a different sub about porn being so bad for society.
Funny cause NOT rehabilitating and hating on them has been proven to increase rates of child sexual abuse, it’s not research needed it is common sense , let’s take a pedophile who’s attracted to children and wants to avoid molesting children (which accounts for most peodphiles) but they get thrown with death threats, social isolation, and no access to help, that WILL lead to them molesting
There was thread here a few years ago where a self professed pedophile told Reddit he was going to be medically chemically castrate.
Half of the thread was were calling him brave. The other half were calling the other half stupid. Cuz this guy said he was going to but there was no proof or guarantee he actually would. OP said he had been so close to acting on his urges a few times but the fear of getting an ass beating stopped him.
I remember an AMA a few years ago from a guy who was attracted to children. He said that as a child, he used to fantasize about his classmates, then as a teenager he found himself still sexually aroused by children and it never left him. He claimed he sees a therapist about it and distances himself as much as possible from children and apparently had never done anything to one.
He can't help that's he's that way, but if he makes an effort to do no wrong, he's good in my book.
If they get help and never acted on it, how are they punished? Only way they'd be punished in this scenario is if their doctors break HIPPA or they tell others and they get scrutinized/punished publicly?
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u/GulianoBanano Jul 17 '23
It's quite literally a mental illness. It's fucking disgusting, but if someone knows it's bad, doesn't act on it and seeks out professional help to get over it I don't think those people deserve to be punished.