My argument has been and will remain how we ostracize members of our society due to lack of knowledge and education on their issues. A person who rapes, or molests a child is a criminal hands down. But they deserve and are entitled to a fair trial just as the rest of us are. Canada banned the Death Penalty in favour of more humane alternatives. I'm simply saying that painting all Pedophiles with the same brush is similar, albeit not entirely the same as our cause. We seek equality, the absolute LEAST we can do is show the same for others.
Acting on their attraction is illegal, and that should NOT change. Under no circumstance should a child be exposed to that behaviour. We however have a responsibility as a people to try and understand and help these unfortunate individuals (Pedophiles). That is the basis of being a Humanitarian. Help Others, Treat each other equally, Show kindness and compassion to those who are suffering. That is my cause, it doesn't mean it has to be yours.
I think a lot of stuff got thrown into this thread unintentionally that may have thrown it off track. The the premise of this thread was a father who walked in on the act of his child being raped (yes, raped) and he reacted. I kept my comments to the original topic, the reaction of the father. Somehow a lot of 'what if' scenarios got thrown into the mix and it turned into a human rights thing. It got derailed in the worst way.
Yes, humanitarianism is the ideal we should all strive for, absolutely. As proud Canadians, our country and hopefully the majority of it's citizens feel likewise. But I never thought it was an equal rights issue being discussed. It was an emotional response issue. It was a parent protecting it's young. It was acting in the heat of passion and whether the father should be held accountable for his actions. That was the original theme of the thread and that was the route I tried to follow. I still don't understand your equation of pedophilia to homosexuality, and thus being an equal rights issue, but maybe I am intellectually challenged, so I'll give you that.
But lets look at the direct scenario from another view. What if the perp was not caught and went on to reoffend again (as would most likely be the case). Do you think he derived pleasure from these acts or was it a compulsion that he simply couldn't control? He'd have a lifetime of comitting horriffic crimes against children weighing on his conscience. Maybe, just maybe, what the father did was the most humane act for this creep. I believe that there is truly are fates much worse than death, and am sure this guy was on the road to one. Stopping this guy dead in his tracks may be the kindest thing that could've happened to him. You know what inmates to to convicted pedophiles in prison, don't you?
Now I'm glad that you love your sister dearly, I really am. I have a sister too, and so do many others on here, but the love for a child, your child, is like no other on earth. It delevops the second you hold your gift from God for the very first time (and if you don't believe in God, it doesn't matter; you will for that split second) and grows as your child does. For me, my time was in the middle of the night when I'd get up to feed and change her. We'd sit in the rocking in pitch blackness and she'd curl up right against my chest, her hot little baby's breath on my neck. I swear, some nights I think she purred, and I'd sit there, holding my baby girl so tight with tears of shear joy running down my face. My baby, my child, my creation. I pray for everyone who wants it to experience that kind of love.
Then you walk in to your own house and see a stranger forcing his erect dick up inside your baby girl, spraying his DNA everywhere and her screaming in pain? I would have torn him apart ... with... my... bare... hands! Yes, I think it's lucky that the child's father just punched him to death. Maybe that was humanitarism in action. I don't think I could've stopped there. Please tell me what kind of equality does a man like that deserve? Maybe it is my "lack of knowledge and education of his issues", that make me ostracize people like this and prevent me from seeing the big picture, that he deserves equal rights, just like gay people do? (And yet I've been called conceited for not conceding this point? LOL!!! Sorry, but how about the kid still in uni who is quoting text books, telling people how we should react? That our way of thinking is old? Really?)
Yes, humanitarianism is the ideal to strive for. In a perfect world I whole heartedly agree with rehabilitation of convicted criminals. Hell, A close family member was at one time the Minister of Correctional Services here and I got lawyers a plenty in the family, so I have seen things from both sides. All I'm saying is that everything has it's time and place, and that includes our very own animal instinct.
scary isn't it. you never know who's into what nowadays even if you're close to them.