Tyhm wrote:
"I'm 16 so it's okay that I brutally rape a 12 year old and leave her for dead because I'm misunderstood?" No.
Before they do something, if they can be dissuaded from ever doing something, maybe. Once you've done it though, your ass is grass. Period. See the previous posts for some particularly fitting ends for such people, minor or not.
I'm not going to argue with you about the minor issue. As is the case with minors who kill, its a tough call to determine where the line should be drawn. I'm personally glad I am not a Federal Judge faced with making that decision. Its too damn tough.
Just to clear this up though, this is the second time that someone has skewed what I have said for the sake of their own point. I never said that it was "ok". Besides calling them monsters, and stating that they have forfeited any rights they may have had when they commit the crime, I really don't see any other way to express I am not advocating that age determines whether it is wrong or not.
If your going to respond to my post's, have the decency to read them. I may be a nOOb, but that doesn't mean that my statements have any less value, or should garner less respect than anyone else's. I understand this is an emotional topic for some people, but that doesn't give someone the right to warp things into some ridiculous ascertion that I never even hinted at. If this sounds like bitching, thats because it is. I have not stated, nor have I even implied that child molestation is in any way excusable, understandable, or even that the people responsible are worthy of sympathy. If your seeing that in my post's, then its a personal problem.
EDIT: Also, if the notion that most pedophiles are created through being themselves molested bothers you, and you would rather think of it as simply occuring out of thin air, then please continue to live in ignorance. There will just be this little thing called SCIENCE that disagree's with you, and pedophiles will continue to prey on children while we rely on the equivalent of the fucking magic 8 ball theory to solve the problem.