KAPT.KIIRK wrote:
I agree.Am I the only atheist here to agree or am I the only one to admit that I'm an atheist? I might be an agnostic....but you'd have to prove it to me! But I concur with Plook.I also think that this is not a learned action. It's hard wired or they would have the free choice to stop.They know it's wrong,but do it anyway.They know the scorn from society they will get.They do it anyway.They must know that they put their live's in jeopardy each time they repeat offend.But they do it anyway.A continuing misplaced sexual urge that you can't stop or controll.What do you do? Hopefully find the gene,fix the wiring,stop the urge somehow,even by casteration if necassary.But stop it.We could use some of those war dollars for research and prevention.That would be a start,a small start but a start none the less.
BV,the christain right since Reagan has takin' every chance it can get,to regulate/govern our bodies.Be it sex,abortion,or remaining a virgin untill you die in combat! I really don't believe that you would think by our sexual collective prudeness you mean pediphiles should be left alone.But as a native of San Francisco,I can see how the rest of the world views our sexual collective conciousness.We come off to the world as a bunch of "do what I say about sex and not as I do" kinda folks.Very Victorian sounding.
The sick thing is it's getting worse,not better.Stem cell research leads to abortions,don't ya know!

Thank you Captain.
Sending people like Roy to jail - as opposed to a psychiatric institution - is short-sighted. It's the government and the mainstream of society avoiding their own responsibilities - which is to investigate these perversions, and in doing so to acknowledge that they may have something to answer for in terms of the making of these perverts.
Sending a pedophile to jail, not to "Broadmoor" or the American equivalent, pretends that pedophilia - or any other kind of propensity to wildly destructive violent actions - is something that any adult could just choose to do, if they've been mentally led down the wrong path.
The truth - as every police psychologist will tell you - is that such violent tendencies are immovably set in place early in life, almost always before a person even reaches puberty. Perhaps partly by genetics, but definitely by circumstances.
90+% percent of pedophiles were themselves subjected to either sexual abuse as children, or some other kind of physical abuse (maybe a kind that's not recognized as abuse and instead is encouraged within the education and/or medical care sectors, hint hint?!)
When these experiences have warped their minds, they have a choice whether to act on their destructive impulses (and "act on" does not mean the same thing as "acknowledge/admit to", censors please note).
The trouble is, the stress induced by the effort of repressing those destructive impulses can eventually get too much to bear. And that's what happened to Roy - remember by the time his first offenses took place he wasn't so young anymore and had had enough time to get sick of fighting what was in his mind.