Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
Long term counseling, because he needs to understand that his behavior is not acceptable and look at himself for why he has such tendencies. Legal standards because it is against the law and he needs to make his payment in justice for that. Family counseling because this family clearly has no idea what the long term effects of abuse can be.
I am assuming you are using him and he pronouns in reference to the person in this case...I assume this because of the mention of "this family." But given that child on child sexual abuse constitutes a very large percentage of sexual abuse, I was speaking about consequences in general.
I think you are wrong about the subconscious mind. There is no negative connotation to it, although, obviously, there can be some pretty bad stuff hidden there. There can, however, just as easily be good stuff hidden in the subconscious mind as well. The subconscious mind is basically the part of the mind that works mechanically, without agency. It is certainly not something that should be described as "negative", as there would be no reason to do so. There are negative and positive aspects of the subconscious mind, just as there are negative and positive aspects of the conscious mind.
As it is understood by most people, yes. As I have said, it isn't an intuition or just knowing it, like most people, but a completely different route to understanding.
Hmm, I think it is less than productive to suggest all people with asperger's lack empathy, simply because you believe you lack empathy. I am trying to wrap my head around how you can think it is logically consistent to hold that view along with the view that another person cannot understand something unless he or she has experienced it. After all, aspergers for you is different than aspergers for so-and-so, thus (according to your reasoning) you cannot speak for that person. How can you say he or she doesn't have empathy. Moreover, how can you say what empathy is from someone without aspergers. Certainly, you can listen to how empathy is described, but you can't truly know what it is like to have empathy (according to your reasoning), so you couldn't know whether others had it or not. The most you could ever say is that you personally do not experience feelings like those associated with empathy.
Oh ... now I get it.
Yes, there are some more heinous than others but IMO, they all demand prison time. All should be registered sex offenders permanently. All should have to listen to the candid stories of what abuse has done to those abused. And in some cases, it should require either physical or chemical castration, particularly in cases where the person is severely traumatized.
The first statement seems focused on the victim while the last seems focused in the offender. If rehabilitation is our goal, especially with juveniles, how much should we consider the victim?
I'm fine with that, I guess, but he needs to be in therapy and under constant supervision. He raped his 9 year old sister for Christ's sake. More importantly, the parents covered it up and put their children in tremendous risk. They should be ridiculed.
Having Asperger's impairs areas of social functioning that are required for empathy. What he have is more of an understanding, because we have to learn so much about social ways, rather than genuine empathy.
I am of the opinion "if you know one person with autism, then you know one person with autism."
I don't agree. I think punishment and/or ridicule is how we make sure something like this doesn't happen again. If we fail to acknowledge the horribly irresponsible nature of these parents, other fundamentalists will think it isn't that big of a deal. We need to make an example out of parents like this who disregard their children's safety in the interest of their religion/faith.