1. If fairness is associated with group-identity, with all of the associated accommodations, law will be reduced to constant petition of government for special and specific exemptions from justice. Law, to be just, but be written and carried out in ignorance of the identity of its claimants. Mamet, The Secret Knowledge, chapter 23.
2. Ann Coulters most recent best-seller, Mugged, is an extended version of the above. In it, she lays out the case that Liberals have made all sorts of special exemptions and exceptions for black Americans which, she documents, have had many negative ramifications for the integration of said group into American society.
a. This generalized into a special set of rules for black Americans: instead of punishing violence, criminality and sexual promiscuity, as society has with other groups, society protected said behavior as priceless cultural artifacts, producing a black underclass. THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North's big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes. National Affairs: THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION - TIME
3. The most intellectual of Democrats, former NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, had an interesting phrase for the fact that in many areas, society accepts more and more of what was once considered unacceptable.
a. "Defining Deviancy Down (DDD) was an expression coined by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1993. Moynihan based his phrase on the theory of Emile Durkheim that there is a limit to the bad behavior that a society can tolerate before it has to start lowering its standards. In 93, the senator applied his slogan to the moral deregulation that had eroded families, increased crime, and produced the mentally ill homeless population.
The American Spectator : Defending Deviancy Down
b. Charles Krauthammer expanded Moynihans point by proposing the reverse that not only were we normalizing what was once considered deviant, Ibid.
4. Is there any limit? Mamet and Coulter discuss equal treatment for everyone. Moynihan says that this can be taken to an extreme that becomes detrimental to society. Consider the following:
5. On Valentine's Day of last year, Dr. Vernon Quinsey, then of Queen's University, and Dr. Hubert Van Gijseghem (pronounced HI-sheh-hem), who was retired from the University of Montreal, testified before the Canadian Parliament's "Committee on Justice and Human Rights." The topic of the day was mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of sexual offenses against children.
a. t is a fact that real pedophiles account for only 20 percent of sexual abusers. If we know that pedophiles are not simply people who commit a small offence from time to time but rather are grappling with what is equivalent to a sexual orientation just like another individual may be grappling with heterosexuality or even homosexuality, and if we agree on the fact that true pedophiles have an exclusive preference for children, which is the same as having a sexual orientation, everyone knows that there is no such thing as real therapy. You cannot change this person's sexual orientation.
6. "real pedophiles" is the definition most of the scientists I spoke to use and the definition we'll use throughout this article. That is, peoplethe overwhelming majority of whom are menwho have an unwavering sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
7. Van Gjiseghem says what he and his colleagues mean by sexual orientation is a person's inborn and unalterable sexual preference, irrespective of whether that preference is harmful to others or not. Currently, there is no significant longitudinal evidence that pedophiles can be made to not be attracted to children, and thus it can be defined as their orientation.
a. And if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that also means it's futile to send pedophiles to prison in an effort to alter their attractions.
8. Dr. James Cantor is the Head of Research in the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and teaching hospital . his first indication that there was something different about pedophiles' brains Other patterns soon emerged . the last clue that made him almost certain pedophilia is a prenatal issue: non-right-handedness .. "It is quite possible that one or more components of the process are related to prenatal stresses like poor maternal nutrition, toxin exposure, ill health, or poor health care,"
9. . Dawn Horwitz-Person, a psychotherapist in Chico, California, who specializes in treating sex offenders, believes we can help pedophiles . "I try to get them to develop empathy and to get them to recognize the risk factors in their life," she says.
10. The old adage is that the true mark of a society is how it treats the weakest in its ranks. Blacks, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, and others are still in no way on wholly equal footing in America. But they're also not nearly as lowly and cursed as men attracted to children. One imagines that if Jesus ever came to Earth, he'd embrace the poor, the blind, the lepers, and, yes, the pedophiles. As a self-professed "progressive," .
Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children
"As a self-professed "progressive,"....
Can you see where this is going?
Moynihan .was brilliant.
Perhaps we should simply send all the children to prison?
2. Ann Coulters most recent best-seller, Mugged, is an extended version of the above. In it, she lays out the case that Liberals have made all sorts of special exemptions and exceptions for black Americans which, she documents, have had many negative ramifications for the integration of said group into American society.
a. This generalized into a special set of rules for black Americans: instead of punishing violence, criminality and sexual promiscuity, as society has with other groups, society protected said behavior as priceless cultural artifacts, producing a black underclass. THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North's big-city mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem is the crime rate among Negroes. National Affairs: THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION - TIME
3. The most intellectual of Democrats, former NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, had an interesting phrase for the fact that in many areas, society accepts more and more of what was once considered unacceptable.
a. "Defining Deviancy Down (DDD) was an expression coined by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1993. Moynihan based his phrase on the theory of Emile Durkheim that there is a limit to the bad behavior that a society can tolerate before it has to start lowering its standards. In 93, the senator applied his slogan to the moral deregulation that had eroded families, increased crime, and produced the mentally ill homeless population.
The American Spectator : Defending Deviancy Down
b. Charles Krauthammer expanded Moynihans point by proposing the reverse that not only were we normalizing what was once considered deviant, Ibid.
4. Is there any limit? Mamet and Coulter discuss equal treatment for everyone. Moynihan says that this can be taken to an extreme that becomes detrimental to society. Consider the following:
5. On Valentine's Day of last year, Dr. Vernon Quinsey, then of Queen's University, and Dr. Hubert Van Gijseghem (pronounced HI-sheh-hem), who was retired from the University of Montreal, testified before the Canadian Parliament's "Committee on Justice and Human Rights." The topic of the day was mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of sexual offenses against children.
a. t is a fact that real pedophiles account for only 20 percent of sexual abusers. If we know that pedophiles are not simply people who commit a small offence from time to time but rather are grappling with what is equivalent to a sexual orientation just like another individual may be grappling with heterosexuality or even homosexuality, and if we agree on the fact that true pedophiles have an exclusive preference for children, which is the same as having a sexual orientation, everyone knows that there is no such thing as real therapy. You cannot change this person's sexual orientation.
6. "real pedophiles" is the definition most of the scientists I spoke to use and the definition we'll use throughout this article. That is, peoplethe overwhelming majority of whom are menwho have an unwavering sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
7. Van Gjiseghem says what he and his colleagues mean by sexual orientation is a person's inborn and unalterable sexual preference, irrespective of whether that preference is harmful to others or not. Currently, there is no significant longitudinal evidence that pedophiles can be made to not be attracted to children, and thus it can be defined as their orientation.
a. And if pedophilia is a sexual orientation, that also means it's futile to send pedophiles to prison in an effort to alter their attractions.
8. Dr. James Cantor is the Head of Research in the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and teaching hospital . his first indication that there was something different about pedophiles' brains Other patterns soon emerged . the last clue that made him almost certain pedophilia is a prenatal issue: non-right-handedness .. "It is quite possible that one or more components of the process are related to prenatal stresses like poor maternal nutrition, toxin exposure, ill health, or poor health care,"
9. . Dawn Horwitz-Person, a psychotherapist in Chico, California, who specializes in treating sex offenders, believes we can help pedophiles . "I try to get them to develop empathy and to get them to recognize the risk factors in their life," she says.
10. The old adage is that the true mark of a society is how it treats the weakest in its ranks. Blacks, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, and others are still in no way on wholly equal footing in America. But they're also not nearly as lowly and cursed as men attracted to children. One imagines that if Jesus ever came to Earth, he'd embrace the poor, the blind, the lepers, and, yes, the pedophiles. As a self-professed "progressive," .
Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children
"As a self-professed "progressive,"....
Can you see where this is going?
Moynihan .was brilliant.
Perhaps we should simply send all the children to prison?
