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Originally Posted by Pierre
And I believe that is the only answer for these people. Paedophilia, apart from being a terrible crime, is not seen as a crime by the people who commit it.
To a paedophile having sex with children is "normal". It is their sexual orientation. You can't cure a paedophile the same way you can't turn a straight person gay or a gay person straight.
Which is why it is ludicrous to let these people back into society, because they WILL reoffend. They will not be able to suppress their urges.
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The attitude that paeodophilia is wrong is nothing more than societal training. There is no reason to pre-suppose that the appropriate psychological counselling wouldn`t have to potential to reform a paedophile. It has clearly worked on the majority of the population, and while there will always be a percentage of paedophiles who cannot be reformed, there will be a percentage of paedophiles who can.
For those paedophiles, who as you point out cannot see that they are committing a crime, surely you must then also call into question their ability to determine right from wrong, and by extension their sanity. If that is the case, you are condoning giving up entirely on an individual simply because of an illness, albeit one that has terrible consequences for others.