Rare Syndrome Turns People Into Pedophiles

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I'm all for medical intervention and greater understanding, but the victims of these crimes are no less violated whether the perpetrator had a pre-frontal cortex lesion, or was simply "a bad person." Let's not bend so far over backward to be kind and understanding that we end up being cruel to those who most need our kindness (the victims).

On a related note, this is yet another example of why I find Jesse Bering's writing insufferable. Bering is so certain of himself as a free-thinker and iconoclast that he is totally blind to the undercurrent of privilege and misogyny flowing freely throughout his articles. Every time I read one of his pieces, I have a mental picture of the privilege-denying dude reading it to me in a smug manner.