There are plenty of problems with socialist communist Democrat “progressives” or “liberals” these days. The biggest glaring problem is anti-Semitism. Another problem within the communist gang of thugs is pedophilia and the defense of pedophiles. Leave it to left wing rag Slate Magazine to actually write an article entitled: Is Pedophilia a Crime or an Illness? Seriously, this is the headline of an article from Slate. The sicko who wrote this article for Slate tries to argue that we need to reform the criminal justice system to deal with pedos. Label it a sickness rather than how it’s treated now. This is your Democrat party and media sycophants in a nutshell.
| Leftist Slate Magazine asks: Is Pedophilia a Crime |
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Our legal and medical systems have never quite known whether to treat pedophilia as a disease to be treated, or a crime to be punished. https://t.co/HSMOebS3U8
— Slate (@Slate) March 4, 2019
If sex with children is truly the product of freely made moral choices, then we should deal with it through the criminal justice system. But if it is a genetically over-determined impulse, an uncontrollable urge nestled in our DNA, then punishing pedophiles must be morally wrong. As science—and culture—increasingly medicalizes bad behavior, finding a neurological component to everything from alcoholism to youth violence, we run the parallel risks of either absolving everyone for everything, or punishing “criminals” who are no guiltier than cancer patients.
What science has revealed about the moral/medical roots of pedophiles is, of course, ambiguous. What is clear is that the binary choice laid out above is an oversimplification. The medical community, which started to view pedophilia as a disease rather than a crime in the 19th century, has amassed evidence that at least some violent and antisocial behaviors have genetic links and signposts. But researchers have been unable to isolate a biological cause for pedophilia, or even to agree on a personality profile. Not to mention the terrific confusion within the medical community in defining what this “disease” really involves. Until a few years ago, for example, the DSM-IV—the Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—defined pedophilia as a disease only if the sufferer’s “fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.” In other words, a non-impaired, remorseless pedophile was apparently perfectly healthy.