Accepting the Power of Sexuality but Protecting the Innocent

Even in western societies, issues such as sexuality and capital punishment are still under dispute. Here I think religion is the main culprit which is when it becomes a real problem as discussed earlier. Because honestly, who can argue against people who know they are homosexual to live and be happy together. People do not choose their sexuality. They can try and deny it all they want, but it is as much part of their nature as the need to eat and drink. Homosexuality exists in the animal kingdom as well, it is not a human invention yet many human societies still shun and ban it. That is where the difficulty in terms of these instincts arises, when they clash with the laws of society. A few decades back homosexuality was generally considered as a mental disorder and treated with aversion therapy. This leads us back to determine what is normal. Who can make that judgment? My best bet is the collective wisdom of past and present transcenders and the laws of reason. In my own personal opinion, anything that happens between two consenting adults should be legal and within those confines I think everyone should be free to explore their own sexuality to the fullest extent without judgment or persecution. That to me seems perfectly reasonable. 

But when parties are unable to consent there should be laws in place for the protection of these, such as children and animals. So even though a pedophile does not choose to be a pedophile, he should still not be allowed to live out his desires, because these would consequentially mean hurting a defenseless child. Sucks to be the pedophile but in a modern society, basic human rights, especially those of the defenseless, should trump everything else. Same goes for psychopaths who get off on killing and hurting. In ancient and less progressed societies, due to the lack of human rights, these sexual deviants could act a lot more freely, but at our current level of evolution they need to be harnessed. How to deal with them then becomes the next problem to which again there is no easy answer. Especially in terms of capital punishment it is difficult to come to a definitive conclusion. But suffice it to say that society has from time to time brought pretenders or sexual predators to trial that showed little or no potential for recovery and in such cases, putting them down, might be the lesser evil. Here I am referring to people like Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson or Anders Breivik. These people are clearly pretenders or sociopathic psychopaths and fully aware of their actions. Instead of keeping them incarcerated for life with no recovery in mind, punishing them by taking their life might seem like doing the greater good. But once again, it is hard to appoint anyone to make that decision, and herein might lie a crucial difference between pretenders and transcenders.