Howdy waiting.
Nah, it's okay. Just the original shock of seeing that statement astounded me.
but LOOKING at a child and finding them sexually attractive is far different than molesting and/or raping a child
Of course. My point is that, from what little is really understood about offenders, is that there is little to no impulse control. We've all had sexual fantasies that we would never actually participate in. A pedophile often acts the desire out, partially because they see nothing wrong with the act.
There are different types of pedophiles - even by law, they are coded in different catagories. Like other criminals, there are various degrees of crimes & pedophiles and/or child molesters/child rapists/child killers.
Cautious agreement. I do not know enough about the subject to be able to discuss it intelligently, but on a gut level my response would pedophilia, like murder, is still wrong in whatever degree it is expressed.
IF a pedophile breaks no law, then they aren't criminals. Or the laws might need to be changed to address different situations.
Well sure, and I don't want to live in a police state where thoughts become crimes. Good Lord, we'd all end up in prison. It's just that, again, from what little I've read pedopiles have little impulse control. Look at the difference in impact on a life with pedophilia versus say, shoplifting. What do we do? Right now, I'd vote for more research and more stringent prison time.
Because it might be so in OUR society .......but in different societies, there are different norms
Well now we're opening up several arguments, one being absolute morality. I don't really want to argue that one again, although I will in my opinion, say a sexual relationship with a child cannot be emotionally healthy.
Lady Lee posted this once, it is a quote from the founders of the False Memory Foundation:
You might also want to look at page 38 where the above mentionned Underwager when asked "Is choosing paedophilia for you a responsible choice for the individual?" in an interview with Geraci in 1993 stated:
Certainly it is responsible. What I have been struck by as I have come to
know more about and understand people who choose paedophilia is
that they let themselves be too much defined by other people. That is
usally an essentially negative definition. Paedophiles spend a lot of
time and energy defending their choice. I don't think a paedophile needs
to do that. _Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they
choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love.
I am also a theologian and as a theologian I believe it is God's will
that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people.
A paedophile can say: "This closeness is possible for me whithin the
choices I have made."
Another member of the advisory board of FMSF suggested that
"It would be nice if someone could get some kind of big research grant
to do a longitudinal study of, let's say, a hundred twelve-year-old boys in
relationships with loving paedophiles. Whoever was doing the study
would have to follow them at five-year intervals for twenty years.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/53848/3.ashx
Waiting, for your statement to be proved true, such a study would have to be authorized. I'm as open minded as the next person, but I draw the line at consenting adults. A child is not aware, nor should not be made aware, of the intracacies of a sexual relationship. A child is dealing from a position of weakness in such a relationship, on a physical level and most especially, on an emotional one. An adult seeking such a relationship is manipulating that child, the child becomes an object and such an adult has some serious emotional problems.
I'm sorry but a man marrying a 6 year old boy is wrong on so many levels, other cultures be damned.
