Reply #130: I'm a victim and I agree with MuddleoftheRoad... [View All]

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

It isn't even so much a matter of "forgiveness", though I am awfully happy you are willing to forgive the pedophile who molested me on my behalf.

This is a class of criminal behavior that even psychologists agree is difficult and usually impossible to cure the offender from repeating. So you have a molester on one hand that will statistically repeat his crime against another child when released back into society... and you have groups of children he will have access to in the community that have every right not to become his next victim.

I am chuckling at all the outrage on behalf of a molester's "right to privacy"... The rights granted in our Constitution merely expound on philosophical "rights-based" theories which stem from the belief in each individual's human dignity or autonomy. Autonomy is grounded in acknowledging that humans are free and rational, can make their own choices, forsee benefits and consequences and can take responsibility for their actions. If a pedophile makes the choice to actually molest a child, his "autonomy" or "human dignity" is in no way harmed by whatever consequences society set as a punishment. He CHOSE those consequences when he CHOSE to commit the crime.