ext_1287 ([identity profile] neery.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] teyla 2007-05-30 07:17 pm (UTC)

Paedophils and child abusers are sick people. NOT MONSTERS!

We'll have to agree to disagree here. Pedophiles who can't help their attraction to children but never, ever act on it and make sure to stay the fuck away from children have my sympathy, but the moment they act on it, I have absolutely no pity for them anymore - they are monsters.

Personally, I think everyone who rapes a child should be killed. I'm usually against the death penalty, but in this case, I think it's by far the best option. That's one of the few crimes where I really think anyone who commits it doesn't deserve a second chance.

I don't care if they "can't help themselves because they're sick" or any apologist bullshit like that; people who can't hurt themselves from preying on the weakest members of our society in such a horrifying way need to be removed from any chance of ever doing it again, the same way we'd put down a rabid, child-eating pit bull; and I'd feel much more pity for the dog.

As far as I know, we can't "cure" pedophilia; the chances of child-rapists who have been released going after children again are horrifyingly high. The best we can do is teach pedophiles to never, ever cross the line, and I think you should get exactly one chance not to do that; the risk is way, way too high, and the damage they can do far too horrible, to give them a second chance.

If a pedophile realizes in time that he's sick and wants help, I'm all for him getting that help, and not being punished for his courage to get help before he does something horrifying. But if he's already raped a child, someone fucking kill that monster. Why on earth should I feel bad for them? Why should I be willing to risk another innocent kid so some fucking disgusting monster doesn't have to be killed or locked up forever? If you rape a child, you lose my sympathy, you lose any consideration I might have for you as a member of the human race.

At which point do they cross the border from being the poor little innocent kiddie that needs to be saved to the terrible, unspeakable, abominable monster that needs to be eliminated from society?

Easy - they cross that line the second they rape a child themselves. There are plenty of survivors of childhood abuse who never turn into abusers themselves. It can be done; and I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for the ones who can't do it.

With the right circumstances, anybody could have been a child abuser.

I don't believe so, but since I'm pretty sure it's not been proved either way, like I'll said, we'll have to agree to disagree.
Even if it was true, it wouldn't change anything for me. Maybe under the right circumstances, I could have been a child rapist; I hope someone in that parallel universe made damn sure I'd never hurt a second child.

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