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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I have my doubts that pedophiles can be fixed. It would be like trying to cure me of having desires about woman.
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The way I've understood it, the idea behind treating pedophiles (and all other rapists for that matter) is not so much in curing the desire, but stopping them from acting on that desire.
Not the best of comparisons, but not all priests who live in celibacy break their vows either.
All sorts of people sometimes feel like doing something terrible. It would be so easy to kill that guy, rape that girl... "Healthy" people however never go down that road, they never start acting on those urges.
(Generally even people like these start with lesser crimes; killing animals before killing people as a popular example. I'm guessing Watkins started by abusing adult fans, then teen fans...)
Plus, if there's no death penalty, it's not like there's much else you can do with them. Maybe you learn
something in the process...
And I guess I'm for the idea that you always assume that people can always learn to be if not good, then at least harmless.
(As long as you don't start with the assumption that they have changed just because they've said so.)
With all that said... Wouldn't exactly break my heart if something really bad happened to this guy and the mothers. Actually, especially the mothers.