Thought provoking article...brings up many valid points
(a quick heads up theres a mug shot of Michael Jackson at source, so be prepared lol)

Raises enormous issues relating to the general questions around moral responsibility of individuals versus the role of 'mental pathology'. With the contemporary emphasis on neurobiology, we may forget the category of 'moral sickness', traditionally the view that those who do wrong (sin) can be both punished and healed (though the notion of 'moral correction' itself is probably alien, if not repugnant, to many modern ears). It's a very important clip on a very sensitive and emotive topic.

interesting comment abailart, and the issues of course are fundamental, chief amongst which no doubt is the issue of moral responsibility, in an age of genetic diagnosing, will there be left a moral obligation on an individual level?

even if it is a genetic thing, surely someone would still know that it is wrong to do such a think to a child and therefore should not act on the impulses?
As will murder. you may want to do it but you know it's wrong so you dont

More of a sickness, I guess!

Both.

The question is similar to the one we've posed about homosexuality. Here again, we can find numerous examples in anthropology and history of tolerance and intolerance. Of course, deconstructing our own reactions is crucial to understanding the stamps of "moral folly," "genital neurosis," "aberration of the genetic instinct," "degeneracy," or "physical imbalance." It should be noted that most men and women suffering these "manias," "mental pathologies" and "instinctual and developmental disturbances," do not act on them. The insistence of bringing them all under close surveillance and supervision would be tantamount to witch hunting. In any case, the law should defer to science whenever possible.