Originally Posted by
HotMamaPilot
Let me ask you and usmcflyer: is being a pedophile a disease? ........ And as far as my kids having "the gene", well if I raise them right to be responsible adults, they will never have to worry about getting the "disease".
For the first 35 years of my life, I would have told you a pedophile was a sick individual who deserved to be beheaded at all costs. Then for the last 2 years of seeing commercials of major corporations marketing short shorts that say "sexy" across the ass to 12 year olds and panties in the pre teen department at major department stores that are lace and say "sexy" or some other sexual innuendo, I think some of these guys might actually have a "society made me do it" halfway legit defense. See next response for "the gene"
Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Agree with many of the things that you are saying here Boomer - but if you could see that the brain chemistry (something you can see and track) is different in an addict and if you can see the brain and the body act differently when stimulated with a substance would it make a difference to you? The difference here that many may be getting hung up on is that this disease can be controlled at stated earlier and that control CAN BE in the hands of the person once they get help and started down that road to recovery (thus a person's behavior can play a bigger part).
USMCFLYR
This remark goes along with brain mapping/chemistry. Hotmama pilot, if someone commits murder while on a doctor prescribed prescription drug, and blames the drug, would you say he's full of crap? I would have personally found him guilty and given him the chair until I saw what happened to my grandfather one night. He was a Marine in the Pacific in WWII. He had a massive stroke and about a year later when a new dr changed his meds, the first night he went to bed after the new medication he went to the kitchen and got a large butcher knife and put it on the bedstand next to him. When asked why he did that, his response was "tha Japs are coming I saw some of thier snipers across the yard" and other war-hallucinations, 50 years after the war! Had the wrong individual entered the house, or a family member at the wrong time, oops! So he didn't have "disease" but was on a legal substance that made him act the way he did. If I'm ever on a jury now and some veteran claims his meds made him kill someone, well I light have some reasonable doubt now after seeing it firsthand...