The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns: Curing Sexual Deviants: Is It Possible? Revisited

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I did enjoy, and have pondered, questions as Spiderman's Web discusses about whether pedophiles and other sexual deviants are merely victims of their own mental illness. I mean, on the one hand, it is so easy to claim everything as an illness and to make people seek treatment for their "problems", but isn't that just an easy cop-out for dealing with why these things happen?

I know in my short lifetime, I've noticed that an awful lot more things are being treated with drugs that, perhaps, don't really require drugs??? Just thoughts to ponder as I don't have the answers for any of these, either.

Look at how many kids are being improperly labelled as ADD and ADHD, and they're drugged up, become drones, and end up not really having a mental problem. They just are young and have energy, and dang that ticks me off. Let them grow as they should. Besides, I wonder what the long term effects will be for people who have prolonged drug use like this. Further, what did parents do many years ago before these weird drugs came into existence? They treated their kids like normal human beings, that's what they did.

Anyhow, all I'm asking is how can we throw drugs at everyone who is different than the "norm" and walk away with a clean conscience? I don't condone poor or negative behaviour of others, but perhaps there's a better way than trying to solve all the world's problems by doping everyone up.

May 2008

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When we were first married, and living in the top half of a house, the guy downstairs had a complete mental breakdown and was threatening to come up and kill me. A little worrying when the flat wasn't self-contained!!

So they wired him up to the mains and gave him 240v through the cranium.

If you've ever seen "One flew over the cuckoo's nest", Jack's spoof performance of post-treatment 'dysfunctionality' was as nothing compared to the state of this guy when they carried him back into the house.

I think I'd give drugs the first shot every time after witnessing the blitzed effect first-hand.

Posted by: Mr.D. | December 30, 2005 10:22 AM

Personally I wish they would invent some kind of drug for today's teenagers that enables them to learn how to put on a dang pair of pants. I'm tired of looking at their underwear while the pants are halfway down their butts.

Well, except for the girl teenagers. It's fine if they do it. In fact, I think they should be encouraged to wear their pants like that.

Posted by: Lugosii | December 30, 2005 10:52 AM

Hey Sam,

I just tagged you (I don't know if you're interested or not) for the following blogger meme -- your five most neurotic habbits. I posted mine here:

http://www.theurbangrindblog.com/2005/12/30/tagged-for-five-neurotic-habits/

I figured, why not, since this is a slow week.

Posted by: Zelda | December 30, 2005 01:00 PM

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Posted by: Diane | December 30, 2005 05:19 PM

I don't agree with "behavioural drugs" in any sort of way. I wish they could invent a drug for the folks at the drug companies could take to prevent them from coming up with any more stupid-ass unnecessary, brain distorting drugs!

Posted by: SeLiNa | December 30, 2005 07:15 PM

Argh! I have the same problem with posting links on JJ's blog.

http://www.dianesstuff.com/audio/newdrug.mp3

Posted by: Diane | December 31, 2005 12:31 PM

Seems that Wordpress and MT don't like to trackback to each other without issues. Refering article is here.

Posted by: Rodolfo | December 31, 2005 01:20 PM

I've noticed that also. I always use Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger to send my trackbacks to MT blogs.

http://www.aylwardfamily.com/content/tbping.asp

Posted by: Diane | December 31, 2005 01:42 PM

I personally think the less drugs people take the better. The original argument was really about objectively looking at homosexuality (in which I had my fair share of hate mail).

Posted by: Les Mackenzie | January 4, 2006 06:50 AM