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Originally Posted by CDSmith
While reading all that I can't help thinking, it's a CHOICE these people make to sex offend in the first place. It's not some chemical imbalance forcing them to stalk and molest and rape kids, it's a choice, a concious decision. Before they make that decision there certainly are places where they can seek therapy and other help for the "little voices in their head" and the strange deviant sexual urges they are having. Most of them don't seek that help and instead end up attempting to satisfy their own sick little selfish urges. Why?
And it is natural for people to want to nail ass to the wall when this subject comes up. One of the first thoughts people have is "What if it where MY kid he fucked with?"
It's all nice and admirable to want to treat this like a disease, an ailment, an illness, but that's a tough sell to most people, especially those with young kids. One of the most prevelant answers you're going to get is "What if we spend thousands of dollars on therapy to treat their so-called 'illness' and the guy ends up raping and killing someones kid anyway?"..... as in, an ounce of prevention.
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You say it's choice as if you are 100% certain that there are no other issues involved.
I won't debate it with you because I'm not a clicnical psychiatrist and you shouldn't attempt to debate it because neither are you.
But I would like to just say the brain is a complicated machine. I have anxiety disorders that make me afraid of some of the silliest things. People compulsively steal, collect things the list goes on. Is it a choice for the kleptomaniac to steal? Yes in the end it is and he has to be held responsible. But there is an underlying compulsion that drives him/her to not consider the consequences or consider them but yet still steal.
I understand the anger behind it, but there's a lot of anger that drives many people to do stupid things instead of finding the rational answer or solution.
My point is you can address the problems and try to fix them now or keep churning out vicious people with the system we now have in place.
You should definitely check out the documentary on the BBC that someone posted a link to here about torture in American prisons.
All our facilities do now whether they are a sex offender or a burgular is turn out smarter and more vicious criminals.