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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Yes but there is a difference between feeling a certain way and acting on it when you know that doing so is going to destroy a persons life, a childs life. What made the part about his childhood making him the way he was bad was by saying "he has sexual needs" as if he was somehow entitled to those at the expense of those boys, if you get what I mean?
But I wholeheartedly agree with you about the it didn't kill them comment
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True, I suppose using the word "needs" makes it seem like acting upon it is somehow "not his fault", and it would be more accurate to say "he had his desires" or even "he had his compulsions". A "Need" almost makes it sound like she was saying he had some sort of right to pursue it which is obviously very wrong.