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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (199197)8/31/2004 6:47:46 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576611
 
Don't dismiss this analogy just because the object of affection is an underage and unwilling participant. The point is that choices can be made unconciously, yet it's still a choice. Free will reigns no matter how we're genetically dispositioned or what we feel like at the moment.

Three days ago, the police arrested a guy who had tried to kidnap an 11 year old. He was a 37 year old sex offender who had just spent 16 years in a state pen......most of his adult life. He now will be sent back to prison for the rest of his life.

Do you really believe that that guy chose to reoffend; that he really wants to go back into prison for the rest of his life?

A few weeks ago they had a sex offender on the tube who wants to be castrated. He's afraid he won't be able to keep himself from reoffending.

From all I know and have learned about this kind of sexual deviancy, there is no choice, conscious or unconscious, in the act. Now whether its a aberrant gene or environmental conditioning or mental illness or all three that turns a guy onto an 8 year old girl is unclear to me but, very frankly, what is clear is that choice has little do with it. In fact, some of them have a hard time understanding that its not normal even though society does.

And to pick up a theme from Z..........a nude 8 year old girl does not give me "a friggin' erection"! Period! How come? I don't remember choosing to like adults vs kids.

ted
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