Posted by lostforwards on November 25, 2004, at 6:45:01
In reply to Re: Frontal Lobe Tumor causes Pedophilia in a Man, posted by linkadge on November 24, 2004, at 12:30:55
I like to think in most cases that an individual should be held responsible for there actions unless they have a severe mental illness.
How are people with personality disorders treated in the court room? Can they say, it was their illness. Often things I've done have been pegged by others as a result of my bipolar illness, but I don't feel that's true and I find it very dehumainzing. I'm usually fully aware of what I'm doing.
Pedophilia, as with homosexuality in the past, might be wrongly considered an illness when it's actually a choice.
*********************
STILL, in this case there was an undeniable correlation between the growth of the tumor and his thoughts. A tumor is not a natural in the brain. It's visibly a problem....but then you could say all human behaviour is subject to any pertubation in the human brain. That it's malfunctioning when it is in fact not and you could label any number of things illness.
Which just leads to the good old debate about where to draw the line with mental illness.
Manipulating oxytocin could be useful for any number of purposes. I can think of one: A parent who's bothered "excessively" losing custody of a child.
poster:lostforwards
thread:419429
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20041123/msgs/420065.html