If there's a way to reduce the amount of sexual violence people inflict on children than it should be at least explored. Focusing on ensuring past sex offenders don't recommit the same crimes is not a bad thing at all.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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A lot of it is because it is a cycle. Breaking that cycle will free us from this trauma
wait isnt this the common sense approach beyond the "gas them all" conservatives?
Pedophiles are pretty much the most hated group in society. Even serial killers can be chic. I'm confident most of the population leans more towards executions than letting a convicted kiddy diddler anywhere near them. That being said, I'm glad and mildly surprised to see my inbox isn't full of hate.
I will say that we should either hurry up and gas them, or actually try to integrate them into society. Dealing with it neither way is both cowardly and irrational. And man, can you imagine how much it would suck if you just were naturally attracted to kids and nothing else?
Pedophiles although superproblematic, are surprisingly not the group of people that do the most child molesting. In most cases, the offenders are sexual predators attracted mainly to adults that focus on children because they're an easier target, not because they are optimally attractive to them. Very often they are people from the child's family.
Yeah, they actually mention that in the article. And also that the most likely age for a person to abuse a child is 14, basically because they're new to not being a child themselves.
That kind of brings up another question: should we gas people that target kids just because they can, then? Not that there's really an effective way to filter out the actual pedophiles from the "pedos of convenience".
I think there are methods to filter them out - that's how we know most child molesters are not actual pedos. Personally, I'm against gassing anyone and I'm for the approach suggested in the article.
I'm assuming some kind of anonymity was involved in gathering the statistics. In court the incentives to lie are pretty different.
I think there are ways to psychologically assess an individual, so there's no need to rely on self reporting.
There are not. Not that I've ever heard of, anyway.
There's genital arousal monitors that have been used historically, but it turns out they're as good as random chance in practice.
Oh, then I guess the only possibility is detabuisation. Those people need to know they will be treated, not persecuted in a super harsh way. Then they won't be afraid to selfreport and we will know, whether we work with a pedo or a predator, and we can addjust the way we work with them accordingly.
Molesting a kid is molesting a kid, your motives don't really change what happened. It is just as wrong regardless if it was out of convenience or premeditated. If you're willing to molest a child, you are a pedophile.
Definitionally no, which we actually covered in some detail already here.
If you want to judge just by actions, that's fair, and that's the current approach. You do leave some prevention on the table, though, and you still have the "what to do with them now" problem.
I think both denfitionally and opportunistic child molesters should be treated the same, probably with some kind of sentencing and therapy/rehabilitation. Regardless if it is fetish or not, just the fact they'd touch a kid makes their actions wrong. I also fear if we seperate them too much, normal pedophiles might be able to avoid sentencing/treatment by arguing they were oppourtunistic and vice versa, depending which group is set to face harsher punishments.
Plus, the opportunistic ones may still have some kind of rape/molestation fantasies, which could be treated through similar processes as treating pedophiles.
I just don't see the value in making hard lines between the two groups when the actions they do are the same and carry the same harm, just the motives are different.
As to people who have paedophilic desire - rather than those who actually rape children - there wasa very interesting thread I read a while back, on Reddit I think, of "I'm a paedophile, AMA". Very interesting to see the experience of a couple of people who have that attraction but choose not to molest children by acting on it.
Child sexual abuse is a very serious evil, but regarding attraction to children, I think treatment's a very appropriate route.
Pedophiles are pretty much the most hated group in society.
Not so. Some of them are lauded and widely admired by the populace as heads of congregations.
I mean, the priesthood is βclub medβ for pedophiles.
Only as long as they can plausibly deny it.
They just get shuffled along to the next random parish - where any word of their βhabitsβ hasnβt yet reached - by the priesthood long before that becomes a problem.
Thankfully the media has become far less complicit in suppressing knowledge of those abuses. And thanks to the Internet, some reports become widely discoverable even if no charges result.
Not sure how your systems work in Canada but within US we are unable to provide social services to the more deserving people.
I don't see how this position within current socio economic conditions is viable.
Serial pedos gonna need to be disposed of.
The issue is that current regime protects them because they are in position of relative power like catholic clergy, teachers, political whores or just rich...
These people don't want even get in trouble for their deeds.
Family members get protected by the family a lot of times too lol
So you're on the "gas them" side, then. One issue there is that it's against agreed to human rights principles, so we'll either need to reconsider those, or come up with a consistent way of dismissing them (like we have in warfare). There's also the slippery slope argument - maybe it's pedos today, but what about normal killers, and then people who steal from charities and the vulnerable, and eventually just normal people we don't like.
As for the politics: Lots of them are ordinary or poor. The vast majority, even. Hopefully you're not on the QAnon thing.
I do understand that laws will get abused against normal people like death penalty was used against blacks in the US. That's I don't blind shill gas them but at some point I think parents should be able to kill a pedo and let jury decide
I don't see any crime;)
Also, there is nothing qnon here... We have sufficient evidence of systematic cover of powerful pedophiles. Low level clowns get prosecuted pretty regularly but even these idiots get protected.
Tell me how this story makes you feel...
I think we can all agree on the problem solution to this shit stain.
But the bigget issue here are disgusting law enforcement who should also suffer similar fate but that's just like an opinion.
Edit: I am taking from the downvote you are not interested in a discussion on the systematic issue we are actually facing here...