Child sexual abuse and paedophilia are ethically loaded public health issues. This paper looks at whether there are any specific moral duties related to paedophilia. I argue that the moral duty not to commit child sex abuse is universal and that the duty to reduce the individual risk of child sex abuse is specific to paedophiles. A paedophile is a person who is sexually attracted to children. Some paedophiles commit child sex abuse offences, but others are able to refrain from doing so and have the rational capacity to take adequate preventive measures. The risk of committing child sex abuse and the ability to reduce that risk are a moral duty pertaining specifically to paedophiles. I further argue that society has a moral duty to help paedophiles to fulfil that duty. Unfortunately, societies rarely provide such opportunities and hence fail in their moral duty towards paedophiles and children.

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One of the key questions of narrative identity is the question of the relationship between narrative and reality. In the first place, in order to exclude that autobiography gets substituted with fantastic stories, it is necessary to determine its truth conditions. Then the ontological status of the protagonist of the narrative needs to be defined, as well as the conditions of its existence. In this paper, I argue that narrative approach implies antirealism in relation to personality and, consequently, is incompatible with the assertion of its four-dimensionality.

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