Comments on: Vulgar Pigboy: A Sign of Our Times?

By: grimgold

grimgold — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:56:04 +0000

Approached from an athiestic point of view, you are correct. Psychopaths and sociopaths can’t be cured supposedly. I take issue with that and say psuchologists don’t go deeply, don’t engage in depth psychology because of their belief that cure is impossible.
However, the point is that cure IS possible for all kinds of mental ills and this is being ignored.
Incarceration is a simple way of solving the problem because it separates the offender from the public. But I’d like to see much more work done to cure people of mental ills, especially the child molester BEFORE he has the chance to respond to his urges.
He needs, in his teen years, to realize that something isn’t right and get help.
The same goes for homosexuals. They don’t have to be that way, but most don’t realize they have a choice. Because they ‘were born that way’ they think they are stuck with their life style. So no research is openly done to cure them, even though cures have occcasionally occured.
I am against the death penalty because it is an easy way out for monsters and I don’t want to give an out to them. I want them to live out their lives living with the crime.

By: idealistferret

idealistferret — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:09:40 +0000

Thanks for reading and commenting! I appreciate it. One of the best books that I’ve read about criminality was called “Without Conscience.” It was about people who are psychopathic. While I will agree with you that non-psychopathic child molesters could be cured, I really don’t think that a psychopath can be cured. Hence the fact that I support the death penalty.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:00:36 +0000

Dear Idea, I recently wrote a piece speaking to the problem you bring up. The answer to the problem with child sex offenders is to cure them. I gave an example, copied from the footnote in a book about Jungian psychology, in which the psychologist CURED a child preditor. Homosexuality has been cured as well, though when I say this much screaming occurs.
Grimmy