“In asking the pedophile to forgo sexual satisfaction, we do not ask him to forgo any especially great good…”
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Pedophiles and homosexuals – apples and oranges?
November 10, 2014Revenge – an unjust necessity?
May 14, 2014“Recently, I have come to seemingly hap hazardously stumble over a series of texts and events that all circulate around what I always considered base and somewhat repulsive desires to hurt fellow human beings on what is considered good grounds…”
Exposing criminals and punitive justice: is it time to reconsider the penal code?
February 10, 2014“During the last years, we have seen a rapid increase in websites devoted to publicly exposing convicted criminals…”
Art and Moral Taint
April 5, 2013Practical Ethics debates the removal of Ovenden’s pictures from the Tate.
Pedophilia, Preemptive Imprisonment, and the Ethics of Predisposition
January 21, 2013‘Ethics in the News’
You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?
August 11, 2014Story from a student based on his journalism school thesis.
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