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Re: Furor in Greece over pedophilia as a disability
Furor in Greece over pedophilia as a disability
by Nicholas Paphitis / AP
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.
The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action "incomprehensible," and said pedophiles are now awarded a higher government disability pay than some people who have received organ transplants.
The Labor Ministry said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.
But NCDP leader Yiannis Vardakastanis, who is blind, warned the new list could create new difficulties for disabled Greeks who are already facing benefit cuts due to the country's financial crisis.
"What's happened is incomprehensible. I think there is some big mistake. The ministry should have a different policy on disability," Vardakastanis told the Associated Press. "The list contains major changes to disability quotients, which could effectively remove many people from access to benefits."
The new list gives pyromaniacs and pedophiles disability pay up to 35 percent, compared to 80 percent for heart transplant recipients.
"It's really not serious to grant Peeping Toms a 20-30 percent disability rate, and 10 percent to diabetics, who have insulin shots four or five times a day," said Vardakastanis.
Greece has been fighting to avoid bankruptcy since 2009. Public spending on health and welfare programs has been sharply cut under austerity measures imposed as a condition for receiving emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund and other countries using the euro currency.
Independently run welfare programs that survived on state grants have been the hardest hit, leaving some disabled groups, including the deaf, facing sudden drops in their standard of care.
The government is also battling widespread abuse in the welfare system, forcing tens of thousands of disabled people to be reassessed.
Re: Furor in Greece over pedophilia as a disability
Just when you think you're country is bad... another one comes along to prove it ain't so bad.
If pedophilia is a disability, then serial killers with anti-social disorder should be paid "per body count" by the government.
Good God what world do we live in... 
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Re: Furor in Greece over pedophilia as a disability
Depends how this works.
I mean what does the disability status grant them? If it's like free meds for chemical-castration or something that stops them going and attacking kids then it might not be a bad idea. If the overall effect is to minimise their damage.
Obviously no-one wants to reward anti-social behaviour. But it's also worth considering that people who do stuff like that, or like serial killers, obviously have something wrong with them.
Like no one "normal" would choose to be attracted to children or choose to enjoy cutting people into small parts or whatever...in a way it's very much a type of psychological illness that these people seem to have.
Re: Furor in Greece over pedophilia as a disability
They're getting financial aid from the government... more than people with ACTUAL disabilities.
It'd be far cheaper and effective to just exterminate them, no offense.
It might be a real disorder, but frankly "fuck your disorder". We have to as a people draw a line at this Psychobabble eventually. How do you explain to a child, "it's okay that you're scarred for the rest of your life, because it wasn't the bad man's fault, he has a disability, and we have to respect and treat that".
Not to mention the tragic rate at which kids who were molested turn into molesters themselves.
I'd be very curious to see if we got rid of all the molesters on the planet, if the "condition" would continue to exist, if you basically stopped the recycle rate of molesters creating new molesters.
Or... as it always existed? Psychology would say so, but considering they haven't even been a science for about a century, they don't know near as much as they think, and I say that as someone who is/was a Psych major.
