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People are too harsh on paedophiles

Here I'm talking about paedophiles not child molesters, two different groups often put together by people.
Noone controls their sexuality, straight people don't choose to be attracted to the opposite gender, gays don't choose to be attracted to the same sex and of course paedophiles don't choose to be attraacted to children.
Loads of people assume that all paedophiles are child molester and all child molesters are paedophiles. While there are no statistics on this, not all paedophiles actually commit crimes on children. Also some child molesters aren't actually attracted to children.
Fear mongering and forming a mob mentality on a group of people who don't control their desires does not help anyone in anyway. Loadfs of research shows that a person is more likeloy to commit a crime when they are stressed.

Rather than directing so much hate on these people we should be openly trying to help them. We should have pschologists and doctors arranging mentoring and therapy for these people without fear of prosecution. If we really are part of a society we should be helping the people who fall not throw them to the ground.

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Reply 1
Original post by I am Kira
Here I'm talking about paedophiles not child molesters, two different groups often put together by people.
Noone controls their sexuality, straight people don't choose to be attracted to the opposite gender, gays don't choose to be attracted to the same sex and of course paedophiles don't choose to be attraacted to children.
Loads of people assume that all paedophiles are child molester and all child molesters are paedophiles. While there are no statistics on this, not all paedophiles actually commit crimes on children. Also some child molesters aren't actually attracted to children.
Fear mongering and forming a mob mentality on a group of people who don't control their desires does not help anyone in anyway. Loadfs of research shows that a person is more likeloy to commit a crime when they are stressed.

Rather than directing so much hate on these people we should be openly trying to help them. We should have pschologists and doctors arranging mentoring and therapy for these people without fear of prosecution. If we really are part of a society we should be helping the people who fall not throw them to the ground.


for most people it feels good to be angry and have someone to blame, taking an active route to solve a problem is hard and tedious and means that you have to go against the crowd the stigma of society at large
You mean male paedophiles.
Original post by I am Kira
Here I'm talking about paedophiles not child molesters, two different groups often put together by people.
Noone controls their sexuality, straight people don't choose to be attracted to the opposite gender, gays don't choose to be attracted to the same sex and of course paedophiles don't choose to be attraacted to children.
Loads of people assume that all paedophiles are child molester and all child molesters are paedophiles. While there are no statistics on this, not all paedophiles actually commit crimes on children. Also some child molesters aren't actually attracted to children.
Fear mongering and forming a mob mentality on a group of people who don't control their desires does not help anyone in anyway. Loadfs of research shows that a person is more likeloy to commit a crime when they are stressed.

Rather than directing so much hate on these people we should be openly trying to help them. We should have pschologists and doctors arranging mentoring and therapy for these people without fear of prosecution. If we really are part of a society we should be helping the people who fall not throw them to the ground.

So what about their victims, then? I'll tell you what, you help them - I would prefer to see them all strung up.
Reply 4
Original post by 171819
for most people it feels good to be angry and have someone to blame, taking an active route to solve a problem is hard and tedious and means that you have to go against the crowd the stigma of society at large


I've seen loads of people even actively reject solutions to reduce the amount of victims of paedophilia
I saw an article that showed giving offenders basically a child sized sex doll would make the offender less likely to reoffened
I checked the comments and the top comments showed people strongly rejecting the idea and claiming that it wouldn't work
I hate when people just reject evidence and research for a personal opinion:facepalm:
Reply 5
Original post by BabyLadDarren
You mean male paedophiles.


Lol yes definitely!:rofl:
Reply 6
Original post by Seamus123
So what about their victims, then? I'll tell you what, you help them - I would prefer to see them all strung up.


You didn't even read my post did you?
I was suggesting offering help to non offenders without prosecution:facepalm:
Reply 7
Original post by Seamus123
So what about their victims, then? I'll tell you what, you help them - I would prefer to see them all strung up.


Pedophiles don't have victims. Its child molesters who do.
Reply 8
Original post by I am Kira
You didn't even read my post did you?
I was suggesting offering help to non offenders without prosecution:facepalm:


non offenders don't get prosecuted though. Its not illegal to have thoughts its only illegal to act on them.
Reply 9
Original post by willis23
non offenders don't get prosecuted though. Its not illegal to have thoughts its only illegal to act on them.


Yeah you're right, what I meant was support without fear of prosecution or hate
Reply 10
Original post by I am Kira
Yeah you're right, what I meant was support without fear of prosecution or hate


Yeah I agree. I believe providing a lot of non-judgemental support for paedophiles is only a benefit to society and will stop a lot of child molesters from developing.
Completely agree. Indeed, many if not most paedophiles never actually molest a child. I'm undecided over whether it should be legal for paedophiles to view virtual/animated child porn is prescribed by a psychiatrist - I can see how it would be hard to constrain purely within that situation.
Original post by anarchism101
Completely agree. Indeed, many if not most paedophiles never actually molest a child. I'm undecided over whether it should be legal for paedophiles to view virtual/animated child porn is prescribed by a psychiatrist - I can see how it would be hard to constrain purely within that situation.


It'd be useful to look at some sociological data on whether doing that helps them not molest children or makes them more likely to.
You can never be too harsh on paedophiles
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Original post by anarchism101
Completely agree. Indeed, many if not most paedophiles never actually molest a child. I'm undecided over whether it should be legal for paedophiles to view virtual/animated child porn is prescribed by a psychiatrist - I can see how it would be hard to constrain purely within that situation.

Wtf child porn, whether animated or not, should never be made legal. It's just going to feed their fantasies and encourage them to abuse children.
Reply 15
Original post by Trapz99
Wtf child porn, whether animated or not, should never be made legal. It's just going to feed their fantasies and encourage them to abuse children.


Oh really and what evidence do you have on that?
You're probably a closet paedo yourself if you actually condone their disgusting fantasies. They should be treated, not accepted.
Original post by I am Kira
Oh really and what evidence do you have on that?


On the news you often see that child molesters have had child porn on their computers which the police found. It's better to completely discourage peadophilia by not allowing any of this disgusting content on the Internet.
Sigh.

First of all, pedophilia is not considered a sexuality, but a paraphilia.

And secondly, yes we all know that not all pedophiles commit crimes, but a lot do. Therefore to treat them as two completely separate groups would be unproductive in terms of understanding, treatment, and the law.
Original post by I am Kira
I've seen loads of people even actively reject solutions to reduce the amount of victims of paedophilia
I saw an article that showed giving offenders basically a child sized sex doll would make the offender less likely to reoffened
I checked the comments and the top comments showed people strongly rejecting the idea and claiming that it wouldn't work
I hate when people just reject evidence and research for a personal opinion:facepalm:


Show me that research article please?

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