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Scott W said:Im curious what everyone thinks about pedophilia.
Not much to think -- when someone has gone that far, they're probably beyond salvage. Euthanasia, quickly.
Scott W said:Im curious what everyone thinks about pedophilia.
this phrase^^^ confuses meinfoterror said:when someone has gone that far
LORD_RED_DRAGON said:this phrase^^^ confuses me
do you mean someone actually molesting a child as opposed to just thinking about it, or do you mean someone sexually traumatizing a pre-pubescent child as opposed to making a 13 year-old reach orgasm???
Neith said:One think which i feel may act as a deterent to paedophilia would be to actually punish the paedolphile severely. Some paedophiles have been abusing children for many many years and i personally do not see why they should be given a second chance or any kind of chance. These people are obviously guilty due to the length of time its been going on, and they have ruined far too many lives to be allowed to get away with it, including the children themselves and thier families. Rehabilitation does not always work, prison does not work for very many criminals at all, and although sex offenders have a harder time in prison from the prison officers and other prisoners, i do not think they pay enough for what they did. Also, given that it cost around £25,000 a year to keep someone in prison i do not see why we should bother giving them this luxury, they should be shot, as should serial killers and other serial sex offenders. This would also help to deter future paedophiles, i believe. I realise that there are many pros and cons surrounding the death penalty so this is just my opinion.
Final_Product said:Given that pedophilia is so socially and contextually wrong and that I abhor the death penalty...perhaps sending them all to some island is a much better option.
Neith said:So how would the island be ran? like a prison with officials and so on? or should they just be left to rot there and to manage on their own? Also, would females and males be kept separate? because if they were together they could reproduce, and then their offspring would potentially suffer at the hands of the paedophiles. anyway, if it was a big island then it may become much like australia is today, with all of its own problems and societies.
Neith said:So how would the island be ran? like a prison with officials and so on? or should they just be left to rot there and to manage on their own? Also, would females and males be kept separate? because if they were together they could reproduce, and then their offspring would potentially suffer at the hands of the paedophiles. anyway, if it was a big island then it may become much like australia is today, with all of its own problems and societies.
Final_Product said:I'm not sure that's the right route. If we believe people can be rehabilitated, then we tacitly accept pedophilia as an affliction. As I have argued earlier, I see pedophilia as contextually wrong not as an intrinsic evil. With that in mind, pedophilia remains wrong because of our context BUT, if someone can be ably rehabilitated to suppress these urges then perhaps we have a workable system.
Problem is: rehabilitation costs alot of money; rarely works and assumes that pedophilia can ever be actually suppressed enough for someone to live normally within society and that is arguable.
infoterror said:Not much to think -- when someone has gone that far, they're probably beyond salvage. Euthanasia, quickly.
NeverIsForever said:I never thought I'd find myself in agreement with infoterror...first time for everything I guess :Spin:
Norsemaiden said:Excellent logic! By the way, have you noticed that Australians get really annoyed when anyone suggests criminals should be sent to an island? It seems to touch a raw nerve.
Shiny McShining Rodriguez said:Personally I think it's a great idea. My ancestors were convicts, with my great x 7 grandmother being convicted for stealing a handkerchief and some ribbon, and her husband convicted for stealing a shoe. In the face of all that my family turned out fine!
The Winnipeg Warrior said:
well, from a physical/biological standpoint this was clearly NOT a pedophilistic case. From what i remember ( i might be describing a totally different case but it's still relavant) Letourneau was married, law enforcement/media didn't know her name till after the start of the 2nd tri-mester of pregnancy because she'd been discrete enough that nobody noticed that she was cheating on her husband untill somebody somehow realized that the husband couldn't possibly be the biological father of his wife's kid (like he was out of town or sterile or impotent at time of conception, i really can't remember) then at first it was merely a baseless asumption that the guy the highschool teacher was fucking was a student (an assumption that turned out to be accurate, but still originally baseless to begin with) where the child's DNA was used for the PROSECUTION to show that the pregnant highschool teacher actually did an illegal act with a male that was legally/chronologically a "child" even though the fact that he impregnated her clearly shows that he was physically/biologically an adult.The Winnipeg Warrior said:
this is considered by some to be one of the greatest examples of possible proof of "genitic memory"Final_Product said:Thing is...How can we say an older male and an younger female is abhorrent, yet and older women and younger male is fine?