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Broke: "I'm glad pedophiles kill themselves." Woke: There should be preventative mental health services for potential offenders, so that they don't harm children and have the opportunity to live normal lives.
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Lots of CSA victims become offenders - it's cyclical, and if you'd rather flay offenders alive than try and be pragmatic in stopping that cycle, for the sake of preventing harm against children, then you suck!
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"Why don't they get help now then?" 1) The dismal state of mental health options in the United States 2) In almost every state, mandatory reporting requirements are in place that supersede a patient's confidentiality rights that go direct to local police. There's no help to get
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Addendum to this - it's perfectly okay to have a gut-check response to the concept of CSA, because it is awful. If you want to protect children, you have to get past that gut-check and be pragmatic with policy. You have to want to help pedophiles not offend.
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"You have to want to help pedophiles" is a hard thing to think and actively say, but preventing any crime, especially those against children, begins with campaigns to diverge offender's behavior. Preventative treatment is always the strongest option. The stakes cannot be higher.
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CSA victims are NOT likely to become offenders. That is a dangerous myth started and pushed by rapists to garner sympathy or gain leniency. It is SIMPLY. NOT. TRUE. That said, offenders deserve nothing, but idealization is very different than offending.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11731348 The Glasser/Kolvin et al. study confirmed that there is a presence of a cycle in CSA, and that it is a fairly significant trend that can be used to identify at-risk victims.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223980109603677 … The Oddone meta-survey also confirmed that, generally, males are of peculiar risk of entering a victim-offender cycle. I'm generally not a fan of aggregate survey methodology, but the field is pretty clear on the presence of an abuse cycle.
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An environment of judgmentality and witch-hunting keeps people from seeking help. We need to do better as people.
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Not true, most offenders were not victims of CSA.
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