What I've never understood is how a person like this cannot understand that they are harming someone in their acts. Truly and deeply, and not only that, but an innocent person.
I mean, like CC said, I've heard that pedophiles are impossible to fix/rehabilitate because the attraction part of their brain got stuck at at a certain age. The same way straight people are attracted to the opposite sex, and gay people are attracted to the same sex, these people are attracted to certain age types, and they can't really help it.
However, I would like to think, that even if I was cursed with such a problem, my moral code would be that I wouldn't act on it. I feel bad enough wronging people in day to day life, I couldn't imagine actively harming someone to such a degree.
I mean, I'm deeply attracted to women, but I don't go around raping and beating and taking whatever and whoever I want. How is this disorder so prone to abuse?
Unless it's really two sets of problems, a tendency to pedophilia and a level of sociopathic tendencies, where they just can't understand (or don't care about) others.
Not excusing any behaviour in these musings, just trying to figure it out. Cause like I said, I would think that, even if you were cursed in such a way where you found children sexually exciting, you would have both (or really either/or) enough logic to understand your actions are harmful, and enough empathy to not want to harm.
But these monsters just don't seem to care.
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