Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution

Khemisty writes "Evolutionary changes are supposed to take place gradually and randomly, under pressure from natural selection. But a team of Princeton scientists investigating a group of proteins that help cells burn energy stumbled across evidence that this is not how evolution works. In fact, their discovery could revolutionize the way we understand evolutionary processes. They have evidence that organisms actually have the ability to control their own evolution."

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homosexuality

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has no victims. it happens between consenting adults

pedophilia involves children, who are incapable of informed consent. as such, they are being victimized

to prosecute pedophiles goes beyond the question of bigotry. pedophilia involves criminal physical transgression, not an act of intolerance. for example, not renting to a black person, that is intolerance. punching a black person in the face, that is assault. for both acts, the root cause may be racism, but the wrongful acts are different. likewise with pedophilia as compared to homosexuality

yes, pedophiles are probably born with their orientation like homosexuals, but because their sexual fixation involves a sexual attraction which can never be consummated without committing a criminal physical transgression, being born a pedophile is more like being born with sickle cell anemia or downs syndrome: a permanently disabling trait

just because you are born with a condition doesn't mean it is automatically ok. sometimes, that condition is fatal. and wanting to have sex with children is pretty much the same sort of death sentence: you will never be able to fulfill your sexual desires without committing a heinous crime, and so, you are permanently naturally and tragically damaged

the involvement of a child in a sexual act is impossible, for they can never participate in sex with adult freely, for they lack the faculties yet to be able to coherently choose sexual relations with an adult. there is no way around this. there is no way you can have sex with a child and not damage their self-esteem and how they view themselves, since that is still being psychologically formed. to be a pedophile is an innate sentence of sexual death, much like downs syndrome is a sentence of death for your intellectual life, or sickle cell anemia is a sentence of physical infirmary. life isn't fair, and there are no accomodations possible in any coherent and logical morality that allows pedophiles to get what they want. the victimization of children is something that cannot be condoned, under any sense of right and wrong

if i were a pedophile, i'd probably have myself castrated, and inject estrogen. even this wouldn't save me, as i know that pedophiles that are castrated still have desires to have sex with children, but it helps. so even with the castration and estrogen injections, i'd probably wall myself off from society, bercome like a monk, lest i ever be around a child in a moment of weakness. is this debilitating? absolutely. but if you have a sense of morality, you understand you have an obligation to do no harm to your fellow human beings. having sex with a child is a form of harm. you cannot commit that crime against a human being still in psychological formation, and consider yourself a good person

or consider yourself a bad person, commit your transgressions, and await the punishment you deserve from a society that wishes to protect its children, an absolutely unquestionably valid instinct, for moral, as well as simple biological reasons: the adult that does protect its children and allows them to be psychologically damaged, decreases their own potential to pass on their traits to future generations, and so fades form the earth. it is a moral, as well as evolutionary, imperative to protect your children from pedophiles

i myself, if i had a child, and they were victimized by a pedophile, god help me, i don't know if i could accept society's punishments, i would desire the death of that pedophile at my own hands. that perhaps goes beyond valid morality, but such is the strength of the parental instinct