Indignation with evil (only for people over age pls)

creating killers that will kill this guy

I think it's important to say that paedophiles are not 'creating killers'.... the killers are creating themselves, even if rounded by experience or opinion.

Edan wrote:

creating killers that will kill this guy

I think it's important to say that paedophiles are not 'creating killers'.... the killers are creating themselves, even if rounded by experience or opinion.

you are fully right

What differentiates people from animals (among other things) is impulse control. Someone being a pedophile is regrettable and something to be treated with care. I don’t think anyone decides to become one, so reaching out and helping them staying in control of this is what I’d consider the right thing to do.

People acting on these impulses are excluded from that. This is where I’d draw a hard, hard line. You touch a child once; you are done for. Any leniency would send a wrong signal to those still holding on to their control. This is not theft, not homicide, I’d equal it to murder.

And since it is part of their being, there is no rehabilitation. As long as they keep it in check, they deserve every chance any other person does. If they cross the line, everyone else deserves never to be threatened by them again.

The mind is so complex, and since its use seems to define its nature (at least in a big part) - there is a good argument that someone like a pedophile has created their own psychological dependency and therefore experience of self identity, by repeated fixation on it over time - considering its a sexual pleasure for them this explains why it is getting repeated and entrenched within their psychology. Change starts with the individual, they have to be the change they want to be and stick with it. So IMO the problem is they are simply abusing others for their own purposes, and then the issue becomes one of fundamentally having such a reduced measure of empathy. It has been shown by some researchers in the last few years that some people do indeed have a genetic predisposition to having little or no empathy and that this underpinned the emergence of psychopathic tendencies. It was noted though that the individual was not always destined to go that path as a result, rather they were more susceptible to it if their upbringing or personal choices led them down that path. So it still seems to be choice!?

Dr. James Fallon has done a lot of work and public interaction on that topic;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2V0vOFexY4