I'm all dizzy reading this thread, but I did realise lately that fetishes don't go away. They can be suppressed, and I know from personal experience that it is a doable and practical solution to controlling a sexual fetish which is too deviant to practice (whatever it is).
So in theory Pedophiles CAN control themselves, but you can't 'cure' them of it. Or if you can I don't see how. Mine are deeply rooted in my subconscious, to the point where some of it scares me. If it can be torn out of my mind, I assure you I would do it.
And I'm not even a pedophile which apparently is the worst thing anybody can be.
But anyway, I'm sort of lost reading this. What I DO know is that we have laws stopping people from performing vigilante justice for the simple reason that nobody, no matter what they do, should be stripped of all rights of being human. That is barbaric and unfair, and basically states that you, being a human which is fallible, are completely certain that a person must be forced into a mentality, or that because of an act, a person is irredeemable.
I may not be well versed in psychology and I certainly no long remember sleeping at night dreading to go to school every day for three years with only the thirty or so hours of the weekend once a week to console me from relentless bullying during a period where I should've been developing my self esteem instead of having it stomped to the ground. My brother points out that "wah wah stop bitching" about my childhood, and the only reason I don't lash back is because I did get over it. What I do know is that branding a person irredeemable isn't going to help something that won't go away. Our sexual development seems to be more nurture dependent than anything else (Shlup might say otherwise?), at least to me, so to me this type of thinking will just pursist.
I've always used the following argument for people who are extremist and want to destroy something deviant -- the easiest way to silence a complaint is to kill the complainer. To me it's as sensible as banding together and slagging all the deviants.
