Word: pedophilia
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...After the election, Warren sowed more confusion about his support for Prop. 8. First he compared homosexuality to incest, pedophilia and polygamy, and then he tried to walk back from those comments by insisting that the real reason he backed the initiative was to protect the free-speech rights of pastors to decry homosexuality. It was an argument made by some other Prop. 8 proponents during the campaign, but it is a phony...
...criminal code in Poland identifies pedophila as a crime, not a mental disorder, and accordingly punishes with imprisonment. To describe chemical castration as a cure for pedophilia, as has been the recent discourse in Poland, would thus conflict with its Polish juridical definition as a crime. Although criminals may sometimes be re-defined as patients with mental disorders on an individual basis, to combine mental treatment and criminal punishment as standard legal action confounds these two starkly different aspects of the justice system. Thus the proposition of a “cure” for criminal pedophiles is inappropriate...
...Moreover, the notion that pedophilia can be “cured” is misleading. In doing so, it implies that pedophilia, if defined as a mental disorder, is not a permanent state. This contradicts common legislation throughout the developed world, such as Megan’s Law in the United States, which ensures that the public may perpetually identify registered sex offenders after prison release, and affects pedophiles for their entire lives. Such laws holds pedophiles accountable for their past actions, and thus are inconsistent with the notion that pedophilia is simply a mental disorder that can be overcome...
...Poland’s use of chemical castration is also a blatant misuse of medical science. Chemical castration for pedophiles carries the same implications as the prodcedure used to forcibly sterilize mental patients in Sweden as late as the 1970s, and Nazi Germany before. To treat pedophilia as a disease that can be eradicated though superficial- and abusive- treatment reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the roots behind pedophilic crimes. Preventing criminal acts by enforcing chemical control of the mind is an unethical exertion of the methods reserved for mental patients...
...Although it is more appropriate to punish than to cure pedophilia, the use of chemical castration as a punishment is vastly unjust. As a member of the EU, Poland has a responsibility to maintain a legal system that respects human rights—even those of criminal pedophiles. Yet even those in positions of power have failed to fulfil this responsibility. In September, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, “I don’t think you can call such individuals—such creatures—human beings. I don’t think you can talk...