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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  I don't think whether someone acting on pedophila is wrong is the question being asked. Of coarse it's wrong when someone acts on this, because it harms others; specifically children, and no one's arguing against them being prosecuted under the law. But the question is being asked, that if it's a mental disease, and that the person can't help it, is it really wrong? I mean, yeah, 'schizophrenia' is 'bad', and it probably harms some people in worse ways than pedophilia, but should we treat schizos like the scum of the Earth or should we try to help them? |
BUT, here's the thing...A mental issue isn't wrong if it's just an emotional/mental issue. It's physically acting on it that makes it 'wrong'. Although there's nothing wrong in being a 'schizophrenic'...Once that schizophrenic commits a crime, then their illness becomes wrong.
It's kind of like when people have the thoughts 'I want to kill you' or even says 'I'm going to kill you'...Thinking about killing isn't a crime in itself...But once you commit the act of killing, carry through the thought with an actual physical act, that causes the problems of it being wrong.
Or if you don't like that scenerio...How about road rage? You can be as angry as you wish at other drivers while going down the road in your car. But once you take those thoughts, put them into physcal motion, thus endangering the other motorists? Being mad isn't a crime...Acting out on that anger in a way that causes others to suffer is.  |