"Do you think anything could have been done to stop you early on?" --- K.B. of TN

I have tried to answer this same question before (see "Inquiry" question posted July 13, 2015). But, the more I think about it the more convinced I become that it might not even be the right question. It's like asking, "What holds up the Earth?" Any answer only begs the question to be reiterated (e.g. Atlas? Then who's holding him up?) So maybe the best way to answer is to ask, "What are you really trying to ask?"

We know today that nothing "hold's up" the Earth. It is a massive orb that moves in an orbit dictated by various "invisible" forces, primarily gravity. As simple as this common knowledge seems to us, it was once considered "unthinkable" and "evil" to even suggest such things. So maybe the "real" answer to the question here will also seem "unthinkable" or even "evil" to us yet!

I could have been stopped at the age of 16, when I committed my first "offense" (by putting my penis in a 14-year-old boy's mouth) if I had been gassed (put to death) as a "sexual deviant". (That was a very popular "solution" supported widely in very recent history even right here in the United States!) Or, on the other hand, if instead of being labelled a "sexual psychopath" and sent to prison to be beaten and raped (which is what actually did happen) someone could have sat me down and explained to me what sexual urges were, and why I was having them, then that would have most likely (according to numerous studies on juvenile "sex offenders") "stopped" me (from further confused behavior) as well. Of course that would have required viewing my "crime" as an "innocent mistake" and not really a "crime" at all. Kind of like viewing "down" at the result of gravitation, and not someplace "evil" where "sinners" go to burn for all eternity.

[J.D. Dec. 6, 2016]