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 Originally Posted by !Luck
I didn't mean to imply that you never think critical of the advice you are given.
The above is how it's supposed to work, but the reality it isn't like that. Medicine and science have been politicized and social engineered.
One prime example is the FDA approved food pyramid and the untold amount of damage it has done to the american public.
Not for nothing, but I'm talking doctors who treat patients and their definition of what constitutes a human body (and not the tricky parts at the beginning and end, even), and you're talking about a regulating committee and their advice on nutrition.
On the subject of "Do people change?":
I'd say that physically, people change all the time.
Some physical changes result in emotional changes.
Some of those are reversible and others are not.
Some chemicals can cause physical changes, which may or may not be reversible.
Our life experiences alter who we are in an experiential way. Our ability to remember the past - but not the future - means that as we live longer, we have the capacity to have witnessed more. The accumulation of these experiences with a dash of intelligence amounts to most people's idea of wisdom. (Although this doesn't mesh at all with the D&D and general RP-world notion of wisdom being a character trait that is akin to intelligence.)
People change in the experiences they have. These changes can lead a person to make different choices.
However, I feel like we're really dodging the real bullet in the question.
Is a pedophile curable?
Will someone who has a certain deviant lust ever stop having that lust, through any means?
(I, for one, have never been exposed to compelling evidence of such.)
Will an alcoholic ever stop in their struggle to remain sober? Is the act of choosing to remain sober enough to constitute a change?
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