[Dino]

No amount of understanding will help those that genuinely ARE just twisted deviants who enjoy taking a life or raping children. You can't say ALL of them are mentally ill, or we'd ALL be. Most probably are to some degree, sure - but at the same time not all people that are mentally ill are murderers or rapists. Some use it as a convenient get-out clause, too - "oh, I was ill". To be honest, no, I don't think we should experiment on them, since it demeans us in turn (It's a bit like eye for an eye - and "an eye for an eye and the world goes blind"). I'm just soft, though.

So you're saying that all or at least some of these murders, rapists, and paedophiles are perfectly normal people?

Give me a fucking break.

How could a normal person possibly find a child sexually attractive? And how could a normal person enjoy killing someone? What part of forcing someone to have sex with you is normal?

There is nothing 'normal' about these people. They're all mentally ill. There needs to be more research into the subject and less ignorance, so that we can find out what causes these mental problems and how they can be prevented or cured before they turn people into criminals.

You can understand why a mentally insane/retarded person who murders someone shouldn't be punished, but when you're faced with someone who appears and acts relatively normal you can't understand that they're actually not normal. It's a very primitive thing, humans generally find it hard to appreciate the latent.

For instance:

When faced with a clearly retarded insane man who has murdered someone, a normal human can see physical evidence that this person is insane and incapable of controlling his actions, they then sympathise with this person and can understand that he shouldn't be punished because he didn't have any control over himself. When faced with a paedophile however, who displays no outwardly visible signs of being insane, a normal human mind is too primitive to understand on it's own that this person is far from normal. Hence they believe that the person should be punished as a normal person would be punished.