(October 24, 2016 at 7:27 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm no expert so I wouldn't know the most effective treatments. But at the very least, kindness and understanding go a long way. The opportunity for whatever treatment there is has to be better than nothing, plus the support of friends and society. If you think all of that wouldn't possibly ever do anything, you're letting your hatred affect your judgement.
I still don't understand the problem. There are innocent paedophiles out there, and we have no idea who they are. We have two choices. We either let them come forward so we can support them, to help them in whatever the best ways available are to reduce the chance they will offend; or we tell them all en masse that if we find out who they are, even if they've done nothing wrong, they'll be ostracised.
Just so we're clear -- I'm not saying we should hate someone for having this urge (which, as noted above, may well be the inheritance of genetics or childhood abuse itself, and not really a choice). But just as once we identify someone in our lives who seems sociopathic or psychopathic we take steps to minimize our risk to them, parents would not only be right but responsible to minimize the exposure to their kids to a pedophile, and yes -- ostracization is on the menu.
I understand what you're saying -- driving these folks underground using stigma makes it harder to deal with the issue. What I'm saying is that for many, many people, their more immediate concern precludes accepting pedophiles into their lives in any open manner.
