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In reply to the discussion: Josh Duggar Admits Molestation, Resigns from Family Research Council [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Not only what 'the answer' was, but also what the reaction would be to my simply asking the question ...
What if 'pedos' ... are 'born that way'?
We all assume (I'd imagine primarily because we hate these 'people', i.e. the Duggars) that if this kid was doing what he did, he must have 'learned it' somehow.
Seems 'logical', I guess ... But we don't actually 'know that', do we?
So what is possibility of, and the ramifications of discovering it to be the case ... that some people are simply 'born pedo'?
Surely if we can entertain the notion that people in general are 'born to be' various 'ways' ... then being pedo should logically fall into the category of 'possibilities', could it not?
As an aside, I would point out this 'question' ... is exactly why I personally NEVER argue the 'born that way' argument when it comes to being gay. I argue that 'it's okay to be gay, to love, and have sex with your own gender, PERIOD', and stay entirely away from the 'born that way' approach that some folks take. Because it's a crappy argument ... sorry to say to those of you who've made it.
The fact that we (as liberals) DO make that argument is EXACTLY what leads the Cons to bring up being pedophiles and zoophiles and all that stuff (you know, the stuff that seems like a total non-sequitur to US?)
To them it's NOT a non-sequitur. THEY bring that (actually) deviant stuff up because they believe that you could be 'born' ... any of those things. And just because you're 'born that way', doesn't make it 'okay' ... in any of those other cases, now does it?
What makes being gay 'okay' is NOT related to it being 'how your were born', it's OKAY because the act of physical love with someone of your own gender is okay on its face.
One does not need to make excuses for being gay like 'well, I can't help it, I was born that way!' F-that. It's okay because it's okay, PERIOD.