However justified, experts say, the righteous revulsion we feel when we hear about crimes like those alleged against Fogle is making it harder to explain them and prevent them from happening.
This assertion was never proven in what followed. On the contrary, if the revulsion were sufficient, self-help and vigilante justice (not that I'm advocating either) would serve to prevent recurrent offenses.
“Right now, our society is more equipped to look at it as a moral problem than a medical or scientific problem,” psychiatrist Fred Berlin said. “But there is a biological basis for these cravings … and society is just giving lip service to that side of it.”
What's the biological basis? The rest of the article just speculates about that.
He added, “Nobody chooses to be attracted to children.”
I certainly hope he's right, but how does he know that?
He says that there’s a lot we still don’t know about the role that hormones, the brain and environment play in sexual attraction.
...in other words, whether there is in fact a biological basis.
“All of the attention is on known sex offenders and just heaping on the punishment,” Elizabeth Letourneau, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who studies child sexual abuse, told Slate in 2012. “This is said to be due to an interest in prevention, but it’s really about retribution....”
Nonsense: As long as offenders are imprisoned, it keeps them from acting upon their impulse to harm children.
Excellent critique. You nailed it.
Did you read the comments, which get a bit scary? (I thought by now someone would have said, par for the course for WaPo subscribers.)
Lefties try to confuse you with gibberish.
That’s what the “news” media consists of.
Correct. Knowing why they do it is not the primary issue. Protecting the children is. Period. No discussion on that.
There are only two ways of doing that. Lock them up forever, or execute them. Pedos can’t be cured, they can’t be “redirectd”. The only way to protect children is to remove them from society in one of those two ways.
A friend’s wife, very far left leaning, worked as a supervisor in Florida child services some years ago. She agreed 100% with what I have said.
As regards the lib morons ever legalizing pedos. That will be an invitation to a wave of vigilantism that will rock this country to the core. No law will stop me from stopping a pedo.
That was the excuse they gave for Sodomites, it is biological.
“No one chooses behavior that is socially unacceptable” is the mantra chanted over and over by the homosexual in the world. It was designed to tire out and debase the morals of man further. To increase the divide between the Divine and Mankind.
There is no going back to yesteryear when we had a “fat and happy life, wife and kids. Men cannot fix what is a spiritual problem. We can barely fix our own toys let alone our twisted souls. Judgement is coming, and that doesn’t have to mean Final Judgement.This is but the natural consequences of our fall away from humility and responsibility to God the Father.
The fix happens one person at a time. One Father to raise upright children. One Mother to teach love, patience and what the schools do so poorly. We outsource the most important things in our lives, then wonder at the shi’ite job that has been done.
The answer is simple, as simple as that preached by a great One 2000 years ago. Repent, turn away from your base desires and strive to live as if your eternal soul is at stake, because it is.