RE: Your friend tells you they're a paedophile
October 28, 2016 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2016 at 6:51 pm by ReptilianPeon.)
My thoughts (maybe it will do the questionare later):
1. We need more studies to determine what makes people paedophiles. Is it something to do with evolution? Or is it something to do with how that person's environment/upbringing has affected them?
2. Paedophiles should be treated like drug addicts. The war on drugs has failed and the war on paedophiles is the same (though admittedly many religious people are fine with paedophilia). When Portugal decriminalised drugs drug usage actually went down, as did HIV rates, and they forced people to take rehab. Known paedophiles should be treated for their illness and encouraged to talk about it.
If they refuse the testament offered, then lock them up. How do we know they haven't acted on urges and what's to say they won't do so in the future? Children are in danger. Not saying non-violent drug addicts should be locked up though since a drug addiction is something totally different as it doesn't necessarily need anybody else for that urge to be fulfilled (i.e. It is not necessary to harm somebody else). It should he up to scientists and peer reviewed studies to decide which drugs should be illegal.
3. Where do we draw the line? Is ephebophilia acceptable? That's something I'm not too bothered by. Hebephilia Is where I'd draw the line so that is not acceptable to me.
Religious apologists who want to justify paedophila will often say the legal marriage age use to be much lower than it is today in some states. Of course, there reasoning never seen to factor in whether the child actually wants to be married. Which is true but we now know more about how the human body develops so I guess that's the reason for the shifting marriage age. Or maybe those states where the marriage age was low where the ones run by religious nuts.
I am sure some people know this man:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZlDvdtaQrw
1. We need more studies to determine what makes people paedophiles. Is it something to do with evolution? Or is it something to do with how that person's environment/upbringing has affected them?
2. Paedophiles should be treated like drug addicts. The war on drugs has failed and the war on paedophiles is the same (though admittedly many religious people are fine with paedophilia). When Portugal decriminalised drugs drug usage actually went down, as did HIV rates, and they forced people to take rehab. Known paedophiles should be treated for their illness and encouraged to talk about it.
If they refuse the testament offered, then lock them up. How do we know they haven't acted on urges and what's to say they won't do so in the future? Children are in danger. Not saying non-violent drug addicts should be locked up though since a drug addiction is something totally different as it doesn't necessarily need anybody else for that urge to be fulfilled (i.e. It is not necessary to harm somebody else). It should he up to scientists and peer reviewed studies to decide which drugs should be illegal.
3. Where do we draw the line? Is ephebophilia acceptable? That's something I'm not too bothered by. Hebephilia Is where I'd draw the line so that is not acceptable to me.
Religious apologists who want to justify paedophila will often say the legal marriage age use to be much lower than it is today in some states. Of course, there reasoning never seen to factor in whether the child actually wants to be married. Which is true but we now know more about how the human body develops so I guess that's the reason for the shifting marriage age. Or maybe those states where the marriage age was low where the ones run by religious nuts.
I am sure some people know this man:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZlDvdtaQrw
