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Should all child molesters be castrated before leaving prison?

Good idea?

  • Yes

    Votes: 27 40.3%
  • No

    Votes: 40 59.7%

  • Total voters
    67
I do not think pedophiles should be castrated. They should all be executed. The only exception should be some cases of statutory rape. For instance a 18year old having sex eith a 16 year old. I think that there should be an age window. Say 16 to 20, as long as both consent and are within that window then no crime was commited.

So you think that if 15 year old boy succeeds in seducing a 21 year old girl, that the girl needs to be executed?
 
Show me somewhere in the law that says the purpose of incarceration is to remove people from society so they can't commit more crimes. If that were true, all sentences would be life sentences.

Why do you think people receive LWOP sentences?
 
My interpretation of your comment was not that you simply wanted the death penalty, but that you didn't want the death penalty process to have appeals and such. If I was wrong, my mistake. A simple misunderstanding.

All good... I am in favor of the Death Penalty and in favor of the appeals process, not as it stands now though... it should be modified and streamlined so that it is more efficient and faster.
 
Okay, then, to spin it in your way, I think that child molestation is serious enough that the punishment for it should be LWOP.

That help to untwist your pink panties?

That's fine.

I don't wear panties.
 
Originally Posted by Catz Part Deux
Why do you think people receive LWOP sentences?

Punishment.

Actually the more appropriate term would be Consequence. Good parenting means applying a Consequence to an action. Punish has a negative connotation, severe, rough, pain, etc. A Consequence is simply what happens as a result of...

punish  /ˈpʌnɪʃ/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [puhn-ish] Show IPA
–verb (used with object) 1. to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
2. to inflict a penalty for (an offense, fault, etc.): to punish theft.
3. to handle severely or roughly, as in a fight.
4. to put to painful exertion, as a horse in racing.
5. Informal. to make a heavy inroad on; deplete: to punish a quart of whiskey.


Punish | Definition of Punish at Dictionary.com:

consequence  /ˈkɒnsɪˌkwɛns, -kwəns/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kon-si-kwens, -kwuhns] Show IPA
–noun 1. the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier: The accident was the consequence of reckless driving.
2. an act or instance of following something as an effect, result, or outcome.
3. the conclusion reached by a line of reasoning; inference.
4. importance or significance: a matter of no consequence.
5. importance in rank or position; distinction: a man of great consequence in art.


Consequence | Definition of Consequence at Dictionary.com:
 
Actually the more appropriate term would be Consequence. Good parenting means applying a Consequence to an action.

As a parent, that's good advice. But the topic was prison terms for child molesters, not time out for not cleaning up your room.
 
Only the worst of them.
 
Well, yes.

Okay. But why just rapists then? Murder is worse than rape, isn't it? So it's death for all murderers and rapists.
 
Okay. But why just rapists then? Murder is worse than rape, isn't it? So it's death for all murderers and rapists.

I think your logic is a bit off. I never said I want death to all rapists.
 
I think your logic is a bit off. I never said I want death to all rapists.

Whoops, it was castration. My bad.

Let's cut off the trigger fingers of anyone who kills with a handgun.
 

Please feel free to provide evidence that castrating men stops rape.

I think that you are assuming that child molestation always occurs with penises. It doesn't. It can involve fingers, hands, lips, tongues, other body parts, and objects. What else do you plan to cut off to stop the use of these parts?
 
Okay. But why just rapists then? Murder is worse than rape, isn't it? So it's death for all murderers and rapists.

Well, death for the murderers, at least. As soon as we can get the cost down and implement mandatory genetic DNA testing.
 
Please feel free to provide evidence that castrating men stops rape.

I think that you are assuming that child molestation always occurs with penises. It doesn't. It can involve fingers, hands, lips, tongues, other body parts, and objects. What else do you plan to cut off to stop the use of these parts?

Can you provide statistics for the portion of child molesting cases which don't involve penises? I doubt it's not a very small number.
 
Let's cut off the trigger fingers of anyone who kills with a handgun.

Better yet, let's not let them own guns anymore.

Oh, right. We already do that.
 
Better yet, let's not let them own guns anymore.

Oh, right. We already do that.

And that's working out great!
 
And that's working out great!

Yeah, here's the thing. You can purchase a new gun. You can't purchase a new penis.

So, are you suggesting that we let people who commit armed crimes keep their guns after serving their sentence?
 
Can you provide statistics for the portion of child molesting cases which don't involve penises? I doubt it's not a very small number.

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation.[1][2] Forms of CSA include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome), indecent exposure of the genitals to a child, displaying pornography to a child, actual sexual contact against a child, physical contact with the child's genitals, viewing of the child's genitalia without physical contact, or using a child to produce child pornography.[1][3][4]

All of the above would be charged as sexual battery of a child (or whatever the corresponding state statute would be). There are no stats kept on how much of each is committed.

http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/sexual_abuse.asp

There are a number of commonly held misconceptions regarding child sexual abuse in the United States. These include the following: sexual abuse is limited to sexual intercourse between an adult and a child; the perpetrator of the sexual abuse is always a stranger; and rape occurs with adult women, not children. However, these beliefs are false. Sexual abuse involves a range of activities including non-contact and contact offenses (see Table1); stranger abuse comprises only a small percentage of total victimizations; and children are approximately three times more likely than adults to be victims of rape. In fact, among females, almost 30% of all forcible rapes occur before the age of 11 years, and another 32% occur between the ages of 11 and 17.

Researchers in this area use somewhat different “criteria” for sexual abuse; the most common definition of sexual abuse, however, is any sexual activity involving a child where consent is not or cannot be given.

...From state to state, it varies as to who is mandated to report and what abuse acts require reporting. For example, according to California Penal Code there are two categories of sexual abuse that are reportable: sexual assault and sexual exploitation. According to the code, sexual assault includes rape and rape in concert, oral copulation and sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under the age of 14, penetration of a genital and/or anal opening by a foreign object, and child molestation. Sexual exploitation includes conduct involving matter depicting minors engaged in obscene acts; promoting, aiding, or assisting a minor to engage in prostitution; a live performance involving obscene sexual conduct, or posing for a pictorial depiction involving obscene conduct for commercial purposes; and depicting a child in or knowingly developing a pictorial depiction in which a child engages in obscene sexual conduct.
 
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There are no stats kept on how much of each is committed.

That's disappointing. But I doubt that someone who used actual penal(?) penetration the first time would suddenly change preferences.
 
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