I wish I can agree with you that a person that preys on young children are somehow curable with enlightenment or therapy. I've seen too many so-called "cured" pedophiles released from prison only to go on to commit the same sick acts. And many who were released from prison and haven't repeated these crimes again, also have admitted that they have to fight this urge every minute of their days. Meanwhile, what about the children? While we can go on and on about why these pedophiles should be given treatments, the fact remains, children are in danger from these pedophiles preyers who we hope to cure.
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Every dysfunction has a root cause that can be changed, but it requires very specific intentions and understandings to do so. One of the problems with taking an approach of punishment is that we never got to the root causes and so even if we executed every abuser, that would do nothing to stop more being spat out of our loveless societal structures as new children are born.
I wish I can agree with you on positive approach on how to deal with pedophiles. However, I tend to believe many pedophiles - who take great pleasure in abusing young innocent babes - as pure evil who do not want to be redeemed.
I accept that many are acting out on evil impulses, yes - so their path of healing is not going to be the same as someone who has confused perceptions about self and sexuality. I understand why you would not think healing would be possible in many cases and I am not speaking from direct experience of these beings, so you may be right.