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Originally posted by Guernica
wottice. You are aware most of these people are repeat offenders, and if they do get let out of jail, just end up committing the same crimes yet again. It's obvious these people cannot be reformed, and do not care for their victims. This is not a case to be sympathetic about. These people aren't poor, misunderstood, mentally ill people. I'm mentally ill and they don't belong in the same category as me. They're monsters, end of.
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Well, they are objectively mentally ill (not all mental illnesses are the same). But they still have a fairly firm grasp on reality and are definitely responsible for the choices they make (whether it's actually abusing children themselves or collecting child ****, which is abuse from others). The mental explanation provides a comprehensible motive, but is nothing at all resembling a justification for their actions (sorta like with psychopaths). A person can definitely choose not to do those things. The only time I think mental illness is a justification is in a case like schizophrenia, where the person has no understanding of what their actions truly mean
As for treatment, I think just about any mental illness can be somehow treated. Though I do not think we are at a point right now in society to effectively treat even one pedo, let alone all of them. I think running various psych studies on convicted and arrested ones could honestly prove very helpful
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Originally posted by SebaMonster
Let's not forget those are pictures of children that never wanted to show their bodies and are being used as ****. He did do some harm.
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This. He isn't just someone with a mental disorder who never acted on it. While as far as we know he hasn't actively harmed another person directly, possessing this stuff enables it to continue and does do harm for the reasons Seba said
