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Whatsthepoint
I guess that's true.
But does a person choose to be like that? Or is it a result of certain factors in their childhood, adolescence etc?
Should they control themselves and their urges? Of course they should, but can they? No. I believe most of them wouldn't even if they knew they could get killed for it.
Since everyone has ben making comparisons of humans and crops, I'm gonna make a different one:
When there's an epidemic, do we kill/burn the infected?
With some people it could be a psychological disease, something they have no control over. Not with all, though. It could be a result of something that happened to them. Many children that were sexually abused grow up to molest other children themselves. Should they be excused, then, since it's not their fault, ultimately?
We try to help the infected, we try to cure them. But when they start affecting others, when they start harming them, then the more important priority is to stop them. By any means necessary. Would you rather lose someone who is negatively affecting others (even if they can't control themselves) (others such as rape and murder victims, their families, society as a whole), or would you rather have the innocent victims suffer?