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It is hilarious how much we still treat pedophilia like 18th century atheists. "Look! Heathens!, lock them up" mentality that gets us absolutely nowhere. The ar
by vagrantJin 5y ago
It is hilarious how much we still treat pedophilia like 18th century atheists. "Look! Heathens!, lock them up" mentality that gets us absolutely nowhere. The article is good and all but I can't see how it's an improvement from DNA profiling - its just a step above left handed voodoo. Which is odd, since we are so concerned about mental health issues it seems the pyschological aspect of pedophilia is hardly explored. The notion of bury them beneath the prison whilst we put our heads in the sand should be of serious concern.
- jhanschoo 5y agoThe article uses the word pedophile, but it's clear that it's only discussing child sexual abuse.
- Grieving 5y agoThere are few other crimes so heinous and with such a high recidivism rate as sexual abuse of children. Attempting to reforming such people appears to be a fool's errand (and that's leaving aside that retributive justice is a real and necessary component of a serious society). I know the usual response is that not all pedophiles are going to actually carry out their fantasies, but really we have no evidence that "non-offending MAPs" or "virtuous pedophiles" (or whatever they call themselves) are a real or significant phenomenon; plenty of those who have claimed these titles have been exposed as abusers.