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Originally Posted by TheDonald
There's no doubt that what Hitler did was horrific, but in his mind, he thought he was doing what was right. In his eyes, he was purifying the earth. While it is obvious that he was wrong, in his eyes he wasn't. Now, child pornography/molesters. There is no way to justify these actions. There is no one who can try to say that this is okay to do.
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I'm sorry, but you are wrong. In the same way as Hitler thought there was nothing wrong with what he did, there are many child molesters that feel there is nothing wrong with what they do..
In a project I was forced to do for Psych 201, I discovered a very disturbing fact. There was a point when homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. There was also a time when pedophiles were classified the in much the same way. It was a class of sexual disorders. As time went on, our society became more accepting of "disorders" such as homosexuality and it was removed from the list. Now I was lucky enough to be able to review case study files from my professors office. He treated many people that were convicted of sex crimes. What I found was that only about 50% of child molesters thought what they did was wrong prior to treatment. Half tend to struggle with what they have done because they know that it is wrong. The other half hide what they do because they know that society will not accept it. Now to explain why I brought up homosexuality as a mental disorder. One of my Professors clinic assistants that was involved with group sessions with child molesters was ***. He was not the kind of person to hide it. He was told by a child molester that 50 years ago, they were in the same class of sexual deviants. In time his sexual preference would come to be accepted the same as homosexuality. Tell me that this would come out of the mouth of somebody that feels wrong about what they did. This is not an uncommon perception among untreated pedophiles. Anyone can rationalize what they do. It doesn't make it right. But it is in their mind.