Reply #42: Do you really not know where pedophiles come from? [View All]

[Morgana LaFey]

Really?

Pedophiles are made, not born. Pedophiles -- today's perps -- were yesterday's victims.

That's one reason I care so much about not letting today's perps harm again: the children they harm are going to be highly dysfunctional adults (alcohol and drug addiction, prostitution and other sex work, inability to form intimate relationships, teen pregnancy, broken marriages, trouble with the law, on and on). They are likely to either continue to be victimized in other ways (e.g., spousal abuse) OR become perpetrators themselves (or be both victims and perps).

Society really needs to get a handle on this. Each perp can "create" dozens if not hundreds of future perps, and ruin the lives of EVERY ONE of their victims. I believe we as a society have the obligation to protect innocent children from having their WHOLE lives torn from them and ruined thru no fault of their own. We aren't meeting that obligation very well, but I do believe we have it.

I don't really care all that much about the perps themselves. I don't have THAT much animosity or, more accurately, thirst for revenge or vengeance. And when I do, I try to remind myself that they were once innocent children who got ruined at the hands of some other perp. They were victims once too. I think they should be held accountable and all that, but my main interest is preventing continued harm to other children. Given psychology's inability to come up with a "cure," that may mean lifelong isolation in some way.