So cut the wire 
Those who believe this trash pseudo-science are just sinners who want to justify their immoral behavior like homosexuals and the bad thing is, they will get by with it because we have voted into power those who are fundamentally immoral and Politically Correct. The current occupant of the White Hut comes to mind.
If true, then send them right to the electric chair to protect the children and weed out the gene pool before they reproduce
problem solved
So cut the wire
Locking people up is about protecting other people from them, not about punishment, so it doesn’t matter whether it’s hard-wired or not.
On the subject of Pedophilia, I will use the words of Phil from Duck Dynasty......”It’s a sin”.
If this is true, pedophiles should be sentenced to death after their first conviction. They are true predators on the most defenseless in society and should merit no more compassion than we show to rabid dogs.
However, we are left with the alarming question: if some men are born pedophiles, what should society do with them?
Hanging from the nearest tree comes to mind.
Folks, it is time to take it apart and put the entire system back together.
There is a truth to that statement. It is called 'sin'.
“Well, what do you suppose those who have kept their pedophilia under control to some extent, at least keeping it only in their thoughts?”
That is not keeping it under control, that is INDULGING it.
Is “Hard wired” a scientific term? How is it defined? Males are “hard wired” at birth to be attracted to what the average 16 year old girl has going on physically. How many men fantasize about them and who would think of it as control or healthy?
I get caught stopped at crosswalks in NYC as thousands of teens exit school. Some of the girls are unbelievably beautiful, off the charts beautiful. I do not lose control, I am not sent off in to flights of fancy. So much for “hardwiring” huh?
Who would advance an idea like this “hard wired” nonsense and why?
This Evil must stop.
What a load.
How very magnanimous of them. It's like differentiating between matches and match books. Maybe they are different, but they are almost always found together.
Rabies creates hardwired behavior later in life, but rabid animals are put down for self-protection; rabid people are isolated and quarantined. Why should pedophiliacs be protected at the expense of the rest of us?
The way to confront such pseudo-science is to hit it head on with an extreme response.
“Since they have ‘shown’ that pedophilism is hard-wired at birth, and pedophilism is so destructive to society, the obvious response is that when someone is determined to be a pedophile by a court of law, they should be ‘euthanized’.”
You can bet if these scoundrels heard *that* reasoning, they would shut up real quick.
Exactly.
Boortz gave us the false choice and false conclusion the other day on Hannity when he said that gays must be born gay because there is no way that one would choose to be gay, similar to the way a grownup level headed person would choose an item off a menu at a restaurant.
Never mind that sexual deviation (or any behavioral deviation) may be a behavior developed at a young age due to psychological problems.
Researchers = Lobbyist’s
“that pedophilia is a deep-rooted, unchangeable predisposition”
IF society is to accept that position, those professionals who made and who take that position may not be doing pedophiles any favors, as a society who accepts that position could then accept that they have no choice with a convicted pedophile than to insure they remain incarcerated for life.
As to the statement that the researchers noted some differences in the “wiring” in the brains of some pedophiles, it ignores that the brain is very plastic - the wiring (the excersize of various neural pathways) is moldable IN RESPONSE to what we ask it to do, and the brains physical structure can reflect, over time, small differences that reflect what excersize we have given it.
Did they examine the brains of the pedophile at birth, and re-examine them 30 years later? No. Then noticing some “difference” late in life, in the brains of a pedophile says NOTHING about what the brain was capable of showing AT BIRTH. The difference they see can just as well be explained as a difference RESULTING from their long years pedophilia (you keep excersizing somethint a certain way, over and over again, and you will leave an impression on the material you have been excersizing reflecting the excerzing you have given it.
The level of brain activity in various parts of the brain is often NOT the result of the genetic structure of how a physical brain is built, but how it is used over time, again and again. Leave certain mental tasks out of the general mental effort and “the wiring” to perform those taks will atrophy as well. Repeat certain mental tasks with regularity in the general mental effort and the wiring to perform those tasks will improve.
Are there genetic limits to that in each of us? yes; but the general rule applies. The brain is plastic and half of early learning is “teaching” the brain to accomplish a task; and when we do, the brain then improves the synaptic pathways for doing that task again, and the task becomes easier and we get better at it. The brain is genetically full of “potential” but it requires education and experience for any “full” potential (different for each of us) to be realized.
Why should early developmental experiences and the constant repitition of pedophilia thoughts and actions NOT form the basis of seeing some “different” “wiring” in a pedophile’s brain by the time they are an adult? They should. What the researchers observed in a pedophile’s brain activity is likely the result of life-long pedophilia, not the cause.
Not satire?
Virtuous Pedophiles?
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“Once it is accepted that behavior is caused by genetics, then society is forced to accept an excuse for all forms of evil behavior.”
This is never going to stop, until Christ returns, I’m afraid.
Experts are full of crap.