Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 22:33:33 GMT
Not me. I am sympathetic towards pedophiles; as far as I'm concerned they are mentally ill and those who are desperately trying not to act on their desires deserve all the help and support we can give them.
By all means, if one acts on his desires and rapes a child then bring the law down upon him. But how could anybody NOT want to avoid those rapes in the first place?
But I've heard pedophiles say they've give anything to be attracted to adult women. It's only pedophiles who act their urges that should be rebuked; law-abiding ones should be offered help and counseling.
Agreed. We should be trying to find treatments, even outright cures, for this condition.
The left is against gay conversion therapy, saying homosexuality is not a choice and should be accepted. But what if pedophilia operates under that same principle? What if their attraction is not a choice? When you think about, law-abiding pedophiles have the most oppressed life: Unlike homosexuals, they can't act on their sexual urges, and have to go throughout their whole lives abstaining from sexual acts with their preference, as they should, but life must really suck for them.
Whilst I don't doubt that they operate in the same way, of course the difference between the two is that a pedophile who acts on his urges automatically causes immense harm to an innocent. A homosexual does not. You might as well compare an innate desire to murder with an innate desire to eat chocolate.