
well eao.... WHY was my comment to canucklehead "bad"? IMNSHO, since she is HIS wife, he holds some responsibility for her behaviors when he is there. I know I would be when it comes to my wife in that situation. As a matter of fact, I would feel it was my responsibility if I was the primary caregiver of my Mother or Father in the same situation. Then again, I believe in taking responsibility. Obviously you and canuckle head like to sluff off your responsibilities.

So I gave you a negative rating for your lack of compassion.
LOL...shows what you know. I have no control over her unless and until I am granted guardianship. That can't be done until the courts say she is a danger to herself or others.

well eao.... WHY was my comment to canucklehead "bad"? IMNSHO, since she is HIS wife, he holds some responsibility for her behaviors when he is there. I know I would be when it comes to my wife in that situation. As a matter of fact, I would feel it was my responsibility if I was the primary caregiver of my Mother or Father in the same situation. Then again, I believe in taking responsibility. Obviously you and canuckle head like to sluff off your responsibilities.

Not to be nit-picky but by the facts in that story, he may not be a pedophile.

LOL...I haven't said the teacher isn't a pedophile. Thanks for providing more proof you are a moron though.
(Nice dodge attempt too BTW)
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Not to be nit-picky but by the facts in that story, he may not be a pedophile.

Yes I think that's what Cannuck is getting at. Alcoholics will always have an urge to drink, but as long as they resist their urge to drink they can lead normal lives. Alcoholics who haven't touched alcohol for decades prove that at least some people can resist their urges. Maybe some pedophiles can too.
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I think our attitudes regarding pedophilia make these people more likely to harm children. If these people were encouraged to seek help before they hurt someone, maybe fewer children would be harmed.
Regarding the perp in this thread, I think he's most likely a pedophile. Certainly his actions were abusive and he crossed many lines regarding common decency and compassion for others. There is no excuse for deliberately harming children unless he is diagnosed as insane to the point where he could not tell right from wrong. If he is deemed sane, then I hope our criminal justice system locks this person up for a long time.
Until you are in his situation, you can't know what you would have done. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease. At some point they become too unpredictable to handle. While some people suffering from this disease are harmless, irrational fear and anger are common symptoms. Even people who were sweet and kind their entire lives can suddenly because physically threatening. A nurse friend of mine had her jaw broken by punch from a sweet little old lady with Alzheimer's who...

Pedophilia is not like alcoholism. Even with the quesitonable psychiatric diagnosis (even children's temper tantrums are being considered for inclusion in the DSM-V too. There's nothing scientific or objective and often nothing even rational about psychiatric disagnoses) it's not about addiction but about sexual attraction. Since when is not always acting on sexual attraction, regardless of the consequences and injuries to the subject of the attraction, anything but a normal human responsibility? When you see someone you're sexually attracted to and don't force yourself on them, do you expect to be seen as some sort of poor, suffering dude, tormented by the constant battle with an inner force that is beyond your control?
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Also, researchers have no way of knowing if a pedophile who claims they've never acted on their sexual attraction are being truthful. They have to take their word for it. Do you know how easy it is to hide sexual abuse of children?
As well, children are human beings, not a thing, like a bottle of booze or a drug. Reducing a child victim to an object is part of the pedophile's mindset. In accepting the psychiatric diagnosis of pedophilia all we are doing is accepting the mindset and manipulative tactics of pedophiles, even thought these go against all responsible, non-criminal reasoning. We all know sexual attraction doesn't equate an internal powerful force that is painfully difficult to not act on through force or...