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Title: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuclear1 on October 24, 2007, 08:30:40 pm
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=62497&src=109

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SPRINGFIELD -- A convicted sex offender tried to castrate himself with a fillet knife, apparently after having an urge to offend again, according to a police report.

The 59-year-old man removed one of his testicles Sunday night and flushed it down the toilet. The other testicle was severely injured.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Unknown Target on October 24, 2007, 09:51:07 pm
Got what he deserved.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Mefustae on October 24, 2007, 09:53:05 pm
His testicles didn't!
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Mr. Vega on October 24, 2007, 10:11:50 pm
Got what he deserved.
If the guy has genuine remorse, then he deserves a bit of a break.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: achtung on October 24, 2007, 10:51:06 pm
Got what he deserved.
If the guy has genuine remorse, then he deserves a bit of a break.

Yeah.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Mars on October 25, 2007, 12:11:23 am
I don't think I'd attempt to emasculate myself for anything less than genuine remorse
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: achtung on October 25, 2007, 12:50:13 am
Of course, until you know what he did, you can't tell whether he deserved it or not.

"sex offender" can mean many many things.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Bobboau on October 25, 2007, 01:52:49 am
yeah, what if he was just into self mutilation? :)
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 25, 2007, 03:00:08 pm
That's horrible. :eek2:
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Mobius on October 25, 2007, 03:03:39 pm
Bleah...it is just disgusting.  :shaking: How can a man do something like that? :wtf:
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Scuddie on October 25, 2007, 03:16:16 pm
It's disturbing, nothing more can be said that sums it up as well.  Isn't this guy supposed to have a contact for times like that?
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: lenard27 on October 25, 2007, 03:50:06 pm
My nuts feel bad for the guy.  Shouldn't he have had a help or support line that he could call?
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuke on October 25, 2007, 04:14:28 pm
well it was his balls, or raping a baby up the ass. i think he made the right decision. not the first time somebody castrated themselves. all the guys who played the girl parts in shakespeare plays, harem guards, transsexuals the pain olympics, ect. men throughout history have given their balls to attain perfection and i find it rather commendable.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: redsniper on October 25, 2007, 04:41:07 pm
WTF with all the colors? You're all too cool to type in white?
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: lenard27 on October 25, 2007, 04:43:08 pm
WTF with all the colors? You're all too cool to type in white?
Read the newbie thread in General FreeSpace Discussion and all will be revealed
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Unknown Target on October 25, 2007, 05:02:59 pm
Of course, until you know what he did, you can't tell whether he deserved it or not.

"sex offender" can mean many many things.

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The man told police he was feeling the urge to touch and hurt children

Seems like he deserves it to me...
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: redsniper on October 25, 2007, 05:10:46 pm
I TYPE IN BLACK BECAUSE I'M SO L33T AND ASSASSIN-LIKE!!!! OMFG CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!ONE
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 25, 2007, 05:28:22 pm
I TYPE IN BLACK BECAUSE I'M SO L33T AND ASSASSIN-LIKE!!!! OMFG CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!ONE
:wakka:
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Scuddie on October 25, 2007, 05:28:59 pm
Of course, until you know what he did, you can't tell whether he deserved it or not.

"sex offender" can mean many many things.
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The man told police he was feeling the urge to touch and hurt children

Seems like he deserves it to me...
No.  Having the urge to do something wrong and trying to do something about it does not deserve a man to be castrated.  However, he did deserve it because he was stupid enough to do it.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Unknown Target on October 25, 2007, 07:46:10 pm
He should've been castrated when he did what he did the first time.
And anyway, redsniper, wtf?
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: spartan_0214 on October 25, 2007, 09:07:49 pm
Darwin's Theory of Evolution:

Survival of the fittest.



Thank God for small miracles like this...
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: ZmaN on October 25, 2007, 10:33:03 pm
i think i wanna go puke now.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: redsniper on October 25, 2007, 11:48:25 pm
And anyway, redsniper, wtf?
I'm just typing in color like everyone else. :D
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuke on October 26, 2007, 02:48:10 am
hey, this is a darwin award by castration, is it not?
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: achtung on October 26, 2007, 03:01:21 am
hey, this is a darwin award by castration, is it not?
I'm pretty sure you have to die.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Jeff Vader on October 26, 2007, 03:11:19 am
Nah. The conditions were that you have to

a) die
or
b) end up so that you are unable to reproduce.

So until we hear more about his other testicle, we have to assume that he doesn't deserve the award.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuke on October 27, 2007, 10:00:40 am
the article said ity was severly damaged so i assumed he messed it up to the point where it didnt work or had to be removed to prevent infection.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Jeff Vader on October 27, 2007, 10:57:52 am
Well then, I guess we should congratulate the man for winning a Darwin. And for doing the right thing, in the long run.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: spartan_0214 on October 27, 2007, 11:52:25 am
I guess he tried, which is better than most of them do.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Dark RevenantX on October 27, 2007, 06:53:55 pm
Never get between a dedicated man and his balls.


that came out wrong...
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 27, 2007, 07:31:58 pm
I, for one, appreciate that the man chose to make a decision that kept a kid from being scarred for life.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuclear1 on October 27, 2007, 09:29:26 pm
Exactly.  You can say all you want calling him an idiot for cutting off his nuts, but the fact is this was the right thing to do, given the situation.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Scuddie on October 27, 2007, 10:38:28 pm
No, the right thing to do was to seek help immediately.  He didn't do that.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 28, 2007, 01:10:07 am
Well, all I can really say is that the person who gets hurt the most by him cutting off his nuts is probably him. I don't understand his situation. I don't know how it feels to be a pedophile, and I haven't studied pedophiles in detail. I don't know if he was psychologically capable of calling the police or a friend to tell them that he was going to rape a child. I don't know what kind of psychological barriers would develop from knowing that you are a member of one of the most rejected groups of people in society, and there's nothing you can do about it, and having to abstain from any kind of normal sex life for your entire life.

So, if he says the right thing to do was to cut off his own nuts, I don't think I'm qualified to disagree. Personally, I think people have a right to decide for themselves when it is and isn't right to cut off their nuts (or tits, etc).
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuke on October 28, 2007, 08:10:38 am
No, the right thing to do was to seek help immediately.  He didn't do that.

theres only so much getting help can accomplish. getting stuck in an asylum makes you useless to society. what he should of done is had chemical castration done, which is cheaper (no doubt cheaper than his trip to the emergency room), reverseable, and by far less painful.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: lenard27 on October 28, 2007, 12:57:07 pm
I admire the man for not wanting to ruin another human being's life, especially a kids.  But he should have done something less drastic and impulsive.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Black Wolf on October 28, 2007, 03:42:04 pm
I, for one, appreciate that the man chose to make a decision that kept a kid from being scarred for life.

Exactly. Say what you will about this guy, but he felt the urge to reoffend and did something about it. Better than the alternative.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Scuddie on October 28, 2007, 06:14:23 pm
The alternative to having the urge to do something about it is to do nothing about it.  Doing something about it includes everything from cutting off his balls to going balls deep on some kid.  Doing nothing about it would mean precisely what it sounds like...  Not doing anything.  The alternative could very well have been better than doing something about it.

Here's a reality check.  People with pedophilia (or any other mental illness, for that matter) NEVER recover from the urges associated with it.  The only thing a person can control is his actions.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Black Wolf on October 28, 2007, 09:54:23 pm
You don't think severing his testicles, permanantly eliminating any sexual drive, abnormal or otherwise, would constitute controlling his actions?
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: spartan_0214 on October 28, 2007, 10:07:10 pm
Technically, that would be eliminating his possible actions, not controlling them. He deserves a Darwin Award regardless.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuke on October 29, 2007, 03:32:57 am
nuts can b a terrible thing sometimes. think about it, they make you throw alot of money away chasing after the ladies, trying to get some. they know this and will suck up every dollar you got. they cause unnecessary aggression. i think more fights, wars or other conflicts were started because of testicles than any other force. not to mention they just sorta dangle there a few inches from your asshole and thus smell funny. its really just natures way of tricking us into breeding with alot of rather evil side effects. perhaps this guy is one of the wise ones.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: karajorma on October 29, 2007, 09:42:09 am
Well since sexual urges are greatly magnified by testosterone so removing his balls would cut down on that.

That said anyone insane enough to think this is the solution to a problem was probably in need of help with the problem anyway.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Nuke on October 29, 2007, 01:46:07 pm
this is true. ive heard of cases where pedophiles volunteeraly had chemical castration. but this guy is clearly nuts.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: watsisname on October 29, 2007, 02:33:11 pm
this is true. ive heard of cases where pedophiles volunteeraly had chemical castration. but this guy is clearly nuts.

More like nutless.
Title: Re: Man Gets The Urge, Attempts to Stop It
Post by: Flipside on October 29, 2007, 07:26:16 pm
To quote Terry Pratchett (again):

'The Brain is not a unit, it is a committee, and the part that does the joined-up thinking doesn't always get the casting vote.'