Honestly, I think they CAN be treated, but we need to muster the political will to give them the kind of treatment they need.
Surgical castration and frontal lobotomy will turn these guys into docile citizens with basically no urges at all, beyond the urge to eat when hungry and sleep when tired. They could hold down jobs mopping floors or bagging fries or digging ditches or sorting recyclables. They are very, very sick, and need drastic treatment, in order to lead any semblance of a free and productive life. But our society refuses to give them the treatment they need, and instead spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on each one for imprisonment and ineffective counseling-type treatment, and then lets them run loose again to destroy the lives of healthy people. If they do it over and over again, eventually they get locked up permanently, at massive expense to the taxpayers (while their victims and surviving family members get nothing), and sometimes escape.
When someone has uncontrollable epilepsy that prevents them from leading a free and productive life, we readily support brain surgery for them — sometimes involving removing as much as an entire half of their brain — even though it will leave them with some mental disabilities. Why don’t we support this for people with uncontrollable urges to rape and kill?
Epilepsy sufferers do not target innocent children and women with their “uncontrollable desires.”
Isn’t it time we placed the safety of our children above concern for sexual predators?
Simple. Because the threshold for such brutality would widen and widen until people are being lobotomized for being conservative. Just shut the programs down and lock the psychopaths up or execute the chronic molesters.