Do you feel that pedophiles can be rehabilitated? Honestly?
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Some can, and unfortunately some can't.
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NO and NO.... How twisted do they have to be to think it was ok in the first place.... They can not be rehabilitated... I hate those f****. Anyone in their right mind who even THOUGHT of sexual fantasies about an innocent child nonetheless ACTED on it deserves to be locked up forever or dead
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My answer is no...nothing to back my answer up with ....I just don't think so.
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no they have already chosen their way of life and will never change
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sure they can......CASTRATE,ISOLATE,ELIMENATE
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Some can come to grips with the reality of their illness through therapy, such as by realizing the events that caused it, but they will never develop a standard sexuality.
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No they can't and it isn't worth it to take the chance.
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I believe that this question will get more useless answers based merely on hatred and a desire for revenge that any actual facts. The truth is that there is a possibility of rehabilitation in some (but not all) cases, and there is a risk of relapse. In that respect, it is a lot like substance abuse. The problem is that our society has such a hatred of pedophiles that we would rather put a bullet in their head that even acknowledge that they are even remotely human.
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I really in my heart, don't feel they can...I am sorry there is no excuse for people like that
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From the outside, no. From the inside, yes. It is a pretty dark place to come back from, I imagine.
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I have heard from two experts, two psychiatrists specialized in sexual problems that pedophiles can not be rehabilitated. That's what they said, so I think they know what they are talking about....
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NO NEVER, They are a danger to our children for as long as they live and once caught should be locked away for life.
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I think no, but I'm not an expert. If they were like that before then they're likely to remain that way.
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They might be rehabilitated but can they ever earn peoples trust?
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The prognosis of successfully ending pedophilic habits among persons who practice pedophilia is not favorable. Pedophiles have a high rate of recidivism; that is, they tend to repeat their acts often over time. Going to a therapist or Psychiatrist or psychologist with the problem requires the professional to turn the individual over to the law. This is bad for therapy and makes the concept of treatment useless.
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Given the right things, yes, I believe anyone can be rehabilitated from anything. However, most of them won't, and even most who pretend to be aren't. I'd have to be REAL sure before I'd let anyone like that around my children, and even then probably not unsupervised.
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How do you define rehabilitation? If by "rehabilitated" you mean that they will never have sex with a child again, that's a possibility, and can be accomplished a number of different ways. If by "rehabilitated" you mean their thoughts about having sex with children will ever completely go away, and they will ever be able to live a normal life, the chances are slim. The problem is the way our rehabilitation system handles child-predators, and the way the society views the issue. It's more a question of morality and self-control than it is of mental-illness.
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No! no matter wut ppl say if u do it once ull do it again
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No I do however feel they can be shot. But to add to my answer, there are many pedophiles in the world, their are those that have these desires, and deny them. That do not let them influence their lives. They are "fine". They do not cause hurt to anyone. Then there are those that do not deny these desires, that take advantage of little kids, and that hurt those who cannot defend themselves. These are the ones I wish shot.
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My own feeling is that they can learn not to indulge their urges by acting on it, but true rehabilitation is probably not possible. Anyone, no matter how strong their urges are, can learn not to act on them. (Alcoholics, smokers, liars, vows of celibacy, etc)
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No , I don`t think so.In Russia where I`m from and where I live , we have a proverb- you may wash a black sheep many times, but it will never become white
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I don't think so...
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All hatred aside , the fall back rate is higher than any other addiction, I'd honestly have to say no!
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No. They should all be hung from the nearest tree.
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Plaigh, good question, no points in comments though shoulda answered.
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All these comments from people outside the problem. Pedophiles can be rehabilitated, to a point. It's been 18 years, including 3 in prison and 5 more in therapy, since I offended. Due to therapy it's unlikely I would ever offend again. I've learned to recognize how I was lying to myself, the pain that was actually happening. And yes, it does still role around upstairs, but I simply have to deal with it. I do understand that recidivism for sex offenders is abnormally high. At 18 years safe I can probably be considered a freak. And for those who want to know, I recently wrote a college paper supporting the death penalty, but for repeat offenders in murder, rape, child-molestation and felony drug crimes.
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http://www.registeredoffenderslist.org/what-is-pedophilia.htm
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Only if they WANT to be rehabilitated
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No its a brain malfunction
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nope the only way to rehabilatate the is to extermanate them!!!
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It can happen, but it's really hard and, for most people, not worth the trouble. Doesn't mean we gotta kill them all though...I don't know why people are so violent.
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I think that the Guillotine is an effective pedophile rehabilitation tool. After they've been guillotined, they've never gone on to molest other kids.
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As far as it is possible, definitively YES.
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after they have been castrated!, then they can rehabilitate all they want.
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Sure, they should. The thing is, this can't always be done. In an ideal world though, sure they should.
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If they can be rehabilitated, then any criminal should be rehabilitated. The purpose of the justice system is to prevent crime: punishment is only a means to that end. Rehabilitation is by far the best option - where it is possible. But paedophiles are amongst the most difficult criminals to rehabilitate, because their are genuinely warped, unlike most criminals who just have difficulty handling the world they find themselves in.
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Only problem is, they can't. Check the recidivism rates on pedophiles compared to other Criminals that have gone through the so called Rehabilitaion process.
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I don't know but I would try to rehabilitate myself. Maybe by giving myself an electrical shock anytime I think of children sexually. Then the thought of anything to do sexually with children would be so painful, I'd go out of my way not only to not act on it, but to not even let it enter into my mind. But nooo... That's inhumane and against people's rights. They'd never do that.
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The articles I have read / seen, say there is a very small percentage likelihood.
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Honestly? No!!!
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They are the most devious people on the planet and will lie, cheat and con their way out of trouble. We don't have the death penalty in our country so they should be kept in prison until they die, looking over their shoulder every minute of everyday wondering if they will be attacked.
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Yes. At some point, I was attracted to girls my own age, and I as I got older, the ratio of age to attraction changed, and I started liking girls a little bit younger, and younger. I believe there is some underlying cause in my experience that keeps from being unable to see a twenty-three year old woman as fairly unattractive, and I believe with psychological help (not psychiatric) my sexual preference could change. Honestly, I'm just too scared shitless of psychopathic, violent, hate-mongering, vile-spewing, closed-minded people who want to hack my up, kill me, put bullets in my head, and send me to an unmarked grace, depriving my mother of a son, my wife of a friend, and husband, and my family of someone who tries their damndest to be a good person, and help others more than they help themselves. Online however, I have the anonymity to say I want rehabilitation and help, because I understand, from an objective point of view, that it's a illogical relationship to desire, and in no way can sexual intercourse with girls too emotionally underdeveloped actually help them, more than detriment them.
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The saying goes "Once a Pedophile, always a Pedophile."
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No, I don't think you can change what flips someone's sexual trigger. I do think you can teach someone to control or maybe even chemically suppress their urges but I think what attracts some people to children may be driven by things we cannot or don't know how to change or control.
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Gut feeling - I think that some definitely could. I can't work from anything more than a gut feeling because the fact of the matter is, nobody has ever really bloody tried. And they should, it's a crying shame they haven't. But rather than trying to actually research and test pilot programs for various types of treatments, we just have jail sentences and re-release. I realise there are some attempts at therapy but again, gut feeling: I do think that if there was a more concerted effort to find ways of treating it, there would be a way found that at least some would respond to. Then you could have those rehabilitated, and those not rehabilitated staying in some sort of mental hospital. Until such efforts have been made, I don't think you can say that people CAN'T be rehabilitated. It's like saying I CAN'T win a marathon - well, maybe if I trained hard enough, for long enough, I could. And maybe I couldn't.
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Nope...not in this life time. God might do something with them once he has them face to face..but not while they are drawing air.
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I doubt whether child molesters can be rehabilitated, but people who are paedophiles and don't act on it don't need rehabilitation.
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No, they can't. That would be like being able to cure death. They should all be executed, or at least given a life sentence without the possibility of parole. There is one that lives right next door to me. He plead guilty because he was afraid a trial would bring him a harsher sentence. All he cares about his freedom, and to do what?
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No they cannot, its a urge in them...They can't..
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Definitely NO. They deserve to die!
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No. This was studies time and time again. They can not be rehabilitated, those perverts.
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Absolutely not.
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