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Originally Posted by FunkMasterFlame
I'm a hardliner on this subject. Child molesters, pedophiles, and the people who enable them by collecting child pornography deserve a quick and fair trial, and then need to be taken out back and shot.
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Not to get semantic, but the bolded is not an
action. It's a mental health disorder. You would not take someone out back and shoot them for
having schizophrenia, would you? And you wouldn't label every schizophrenic a mass-murderer, right?
You can't clump a mental health disorder with
actions of child abuse. The reason I am pointing this out is that in misusing that term, you (and society in general) are actually preventing and discouraging the medical treatment of said disorder, which increases the prevalence of those actions. Would someone who has never harmed a child, but had thoughts of doing so, willingly come forward and get therapy if they "need to be taken out back and shot"?
In such a society, this doesn't keep children safe. If people begin to use this term properly as the mental health disorder that is, treatment can be encouraged, and in turn, future tragedies prevented.