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There isn't really an option with no costs to them, though, is there? You have people who are attracted to children, and people who have abused children (maybe or maybe not while young themselves). Child abuse gets near-universal bad reviews, so you're left with a trolley problem in the end where you need to find the least harmful, most fair solution. Someone is going to pay something.
You can make a deontological argument that anything medical is off the table, I guess, but deontology feels very unfair when you're on the losing end of it - we brought in MAID to fix that, and homeless people still are often violating the law just by existing literally anywhere.
I mean isn't this article what this is about? That there is a way to help rehabilitate these offenders without having them commit these crimes again or even for the first time? The article begs the question in asking "Why aren't we exploring how successful this would be if we used it on a larger scale?". Which is a fair question to ask.
I suppose it depends how effective this actually is. I'm kinda skeptical that you can talk someone out of being a pedophile, or into being less of a pedophile. That's not usually how sexual preferences work (mandatory note that most preferences are harmless; some people try to muddy the waters).
We haven't even seriously tried it, though, because the politics of it are very bad. That's definitely dumb.
I didn't take this as a method of changing sexual preferences. But rather a way to help these people avoid acting on these "urges".
But yes, I do agree that it really depends on how effective it actually is. It nay be that this is just a case of having a few good examples but will not reflect in a broad real life scenario.