? quote:
But say I knew this dude hangin around with her very well and his side of the story I would consider; as long I see no potential* danger. But as soon there is anything suspect I would stop the contact between them. Even if he's a nice guy.
Even if his side of the story was that he raped a young girl, fantasizes about raping young girls, but promises not to? To me that statement in itself would be suspect enough to stop contact between them.
The act of fantasizing predisposes one to act upon those fantasies. People in drug addiction recovery programs struggle with fantasies, I've known several (hell I myself have been close to addiction), I can say from experience that the people who actively fantasize about drugs are the ones that most often relapse and return to their addictions. I can only imagine it's even worse for people with perversions of human nature, such as perverse sexual fetishes. These are things that you're faced with within your very being. You have to admit, someone who consumes human flesh for sexual pleasure is perverted in the truest sense of the word. There is something wrong with them mentally, no if's, and's or but's about it. The only way to insure that they would not act on those fantasies again is to keep them away from all opportunity. Even if he doesn't want to, people have been known to act on impulse; again, fantasizing predisposes one to acting on those fantasies.
The way he seemed to feel about what he had done gave me no reason to believe he would never do it again if given the chance. My view is if I let someone in this type of case back into the general population, giving them even the opportunity to one day relapse into their fetish, I would honestly feel I had let society down.
