A pedophilic man sexually assaults a child; later it's found that he had a brain tumor that caused uncontrollable pedophilic urges. After surgery to remove the tumor, he is completely cured, and has no more urges at all.
Should be be placed in prison for the assault?
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Question would be better framed as “ordinary moral person suddenly develops pedophilic urges…”
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Ok, so someone who voted yes, I wanna know: what good is done by imprisoning this person. Normally sentencing does some good by protecting society from a dangerous person, possibly reforming them. But the danger here is already removed. He has already been reformed. So why do it?
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The child has to grow up with horrible memories. Victims of child sex abuse often experience trauma around sex/trust well into adulthood. Some adults with mental disabilities are pedophiles, & it's still not OK. If they can't control themselves, they need to be separated.
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Voted yes. I’ll willingly admit I agree with sacrificing pedophiles, regardless of intent or circumstances.
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Start the analysis by establishing that post-op man IS pre-op man, and not someone else.
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Sam Harris covered this in his book Free Will. Short. Worth the read / listen.
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Is this an assault where the victim is saying stop don’t touch me there, or wants to play doctor and is having a grand time? Because you didn’t say the tumor caused a tendency to cause harm or violence. It legal to violently electrocute animals to collect semen, but no jacking.
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I have urges to eat cake, it still means I am responsible if I do and wind up getting fat. (Well, fatter.)
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I'd think that the main purpose of prison in these cases is to incentivize people to not act on their criminal urges, and it's not like this man wouldn't expect to be going to jail as he was committing the assault.
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Also the people QTing this with "I don't get how this poll helps Aella get escorting clients"... if they can't imagine you tweeting for a purpose other than sex work I'm not sure they have enough imagination to consider ethically complex hypotheticals about pedophiles.
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