Vile, Vile Pedophile Is child molesting a sickness or a crime?

slate ^ | 1-8-2004 | Dahlia Lithwick

[Boot Hill]

If you run your car into a brick wall at 80 mph, the wall doesn't ask you if you're crazy or not, it just kills you.

And in the same manner, it doesn't matter whether or not pedophilia is a sickness, the response to so terrible an act should be the same, execute the offender.

(Besides, if he's truly that sick, he won't know you're executing him!)

--Boot Hill

[jnarcus]

Yuppers...to me it doesn't really matter what the casality of this vile behavior is..it is a crime and should be treated as such

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"So since the founder of Islam was a pedphile, does that make Islamism a disease to be treated or a crime?"

The cure is the same "lead in the head"

[Zipporah]

It's weird.. years ago, I heard a 'sex expert' speak at the local library of all places, saying that if you get sexually excited by your child (YOUR OWN CHILD)while bathing bathing your child, there is nothing wrong with that unless you ACT on it.. talk about sick!! I was shocked to say the least.. these people need some major help.. or actually worse. disgusting..

[Doc On The Bay]

"Pedophilia" appears to be BOTH a "Crime," & an "Illness."

There appears to be--at Present--No Cure!!

The "Damage" these Sociopaths are capable of doing warrants their IMMEDIATE ISOLATION from human Society.

"Punishment" is probably irrelevant to them.

Doc

[dagnabbit]

Molester Therapy: Create small (9 mm) opening in offender's skull to let out evil spirits.

[ElkGroveDan]

Jurors should read more Louis L'Amour and recall our nation's roots. I know what the Sacket brothers would have done with him for just looking at a kid sideways.

[LaraCroft]

It doesn't really matter if you are punishing them or not, but even if it is a sickness, you are not allowed to hurt others for your own needs. What else is a sickness? Desire to kill? Maybe. So what?

On the other hand, if they find a genetic link, these people who would prey on our children could be moved a a big island out in the middle of nowhere to live forever.

[DeepDish]

This story is a poster child for a mega-barf alert system.

[GhostofWCooper]

It's a sickness, and I have a 240 grain cure...

[tom h]

"I don't care which. Michael Jackson should be executed."

Never fear. Prison will kill him anyway. Same outcome. But no jury in America would execute him, even if he murdered the child after doing him.

[Tamzee]

The behavior is evil... the condition of pedophilia is a sickness, NOT biological or from DNA, but from emotional trauma when young. Most pedophiles were themselves victimized sexually when young, or were subject to severe emotional or physical abuse. It warps them somehow while going through critical developmental stages.

Emotional trauma while young can manifest itself in a number of "sicknesses" (kleptomania, bulimia, drug addiction, anti-social disorders, etc) but we still hold the adult accountable for their actions. Sexual abuse seems to set the normal sexual development of some of the victims awry leading to particular sickness of pedophilia, and we must still fully punish their illegal behavior stemming from the warped desires.

[Paleo Conservative]

But no jury in America would execute him,

But I think a jury in Texas would.

[PhilDragoo]

Look here, Jacko,
you and your lawyer may argue it's your DNA--
but Smith and Wesson and I just don't seem to care--

[Tamzee]

Actually castration may work almost as well as the Smith and Wesson... I'm fine with that, too ;-)

[Salamander]

Thanks for the article.

To anyone who's ever been molested by one of these monsters, it is EVIL.
They 'kill' children even though the child's body does not die.

The gradual and intentional eradication of the concepts of "good" and "evil" has brought us to the sorry state we are in today.


Call it what it is.

[dozer7]

"lead in the head"

Technically it is decelleration trauma. The bullet as it slows down transfers its' kinetic energy to significant features of the head. Ofcourse if you kicked the perp off the roof of a ten story buliding you would have whole body decelleration trauma. I see it as a personal choice.

Just thoughts from a much too technical guy.

best regards

the dozer

a kansas veteran "68"

[dozer7]

"It's a sickness, and I have a 240 grain cure.."

Excederin headache Number 357. We can fill the prescription here. Magnum cures available on request.

regards

the dozer

[mercy]

I'll tell you what's sick. The very idea that human evil is a disease and not just what it is .... evil.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I like the idea of it bouncing from side to side.
Ricochet