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JerseygirlCT

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Thu Jun-26-08 02:20 PM
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8. Varkam, I'm sorry for all that you've gone through

and I'm thankful for your gift of empathy.

As much as I'd want to kill anyone who hurt my loved ones, as you point out - that rage would only harm me, wouldn't help them any, either.

The trick with pedophiles is that it's a deeply entrenched disorder. The recidivism rate is really, really high. So how to handle people who are not safe in society?

But I'm quite sure that the way to handle them is NOT by killing them. I admire your ability to empathize, and your refusal to treat people - even, or perhaps especially, deeply disturbed people, as objects, as less than human beings.

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