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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
Our system makes mistakes. It always has and it always will. But we cannot allow the fact that it makes mistakes to make us fearful of doing what is necessary.

Wouldn't that include making sure the person is guilty before doing irreversible damage to them?
 
Wouldn't that include making sure the person is guilty before doing irreversible damage to them?

That is what trial by jury and Constitutional safeguards are for. Also, why there is an appeals process.
 
I say plain and simple. Do a Lorain Bobett on their pee pees.:mrgreen:
 
Jesus Christ I can't believe anybody voted yes.

Clear violation of constitutional rights. My god. Let's cut the hands off of thieves and stone people who work on the sabbath while we're at it.
 
That is what trial by jury and Constitutional safeguards are for. Also, why there is an appeals process.

Texas recently discovered that they executed an innocent man. He'd gone through all of the appeals.
 
Jesus Christ I can't believe anybody voted yes.

Clear violation of constitutional rights. My god. Let's cut the hands off of thieves and stone people who work on the sabbath while we're at it.

People often express insane opinions out of anger on the internet that they would think twice about in real life. Let them blow off their steam so they won't be a threat to the community.
 
People often express insane opinions out of anger on the internet that they would think twice about in real life. Let them blow off their steam so they won't be a threat to the community.

Nice try, but the opinion isn't out of anger, just logic, and I do advocate everything I advocate on the internet in real life, and I'm not a threat to the community, and many states already castrate serial offenders as it is, it's not an insane opinion.

EDIT: is it just me, or do you have a consistent habit of deriding and demonizing people who disagree with you with petty insults? That seems more angry than anything I've said on this thread.
 
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I just personally think child molesters shouldn't be let out of prison....period.
 
Texas recently discovered that they executed an innocent man. He'd gone through all of the appeals.

Yeah. And people die in prison all the time. What, exactly, do you propose we do with criminals if you can't accept the fact that innocent people will be convicted from time to time?
 
**** I believe the relevent point is that in this society we have a wide range of opinion as to what constitutes Molestation OR even Rape. Some Feminists actually believe ANY Male over like 13 or under 90 is a very capeable possible Rapist. This barring Quadraplegics I presume.:)

***** Sheer hysteria in the 80's and 90's have caused innocent people to be imprisoned.
 
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Nice try, but the opinion isn't out of anger, just logic, and I do advocate everything I advocate on the internet in real life, and I'm not a threat to the community, and many states already castrate serial offenders as it is, it's not an insane opinion.

Did I say anything about you? I just made an observation.
 
I'd like to support this, but it would encourage people who abuse children outside of their families to kill their victims-- if the penalty is the same as for murder, it makes sense to kill the only witness to the crime.

Of course, I don't support torture for any reason. It's unnecessary and it corrupts the purpose of our justice system.

WTF? Are you saying that certain laws would promote killing victims? So lets all hold hands and give these sick freaks less time in fear they may kill their victims? This may sound harsh but how about we give what I suggested a try and see? You start killing these jerks and they stop doing it because they are no longer around.
 
You are confused and oversimplifying. Pedophilia is defined as a compulsive sexual attraction to prepubescents and early pubescents.

Ah, now this is a very specific kind of incident within underage sexual offenses.

I know I am late replying-cause I have a busy life and just not able to be around-but.. I will reply to this to tell you that you would do well to refrain on telling me how "I" feel and I am not confused. Never try to tell me how I FEEL!!!!!!!!
 
I know I am late replying-cause I have a busy life and just not able to be around-but.. I will reply to this to tell you that you would do well to refrain on telling me how "I" feel and I am not confused. Never try to tell me how I FEEL!!!!!!!!

Are you feeling ok, kali?:)
 
None. But several use so-called "chemical castration." That's probably what was meant.

Until looking it up I didn't realize there was a difference.


Also some interesting things I just found:

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castration]Castration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Physical castration appears to be highly effective as, historically, it results in a 20-year re-offense rate of less than 2.3% vs. 80% in the untreated control group, according to a large 1963 study involving a total of 1036 sex offenders by the German researcher A. Langelüddeke, among others,[7] much lower than what was otherwise expected

In 1778 Thomas Jefferson wrote a law in Virginia that contained a punishment of castration for men who engage in sodomy.[4]
 
"Voluntary" chemical or surgical castration has been in practice in many countries—reports are available from American and European countries in particular for over eighty years (chemical for circa thirty)—as an option for treatment for people who have broken laws of a sexual nature, allowing them to return to the community from otherwise lengthy detentions[citation needed]. The effectiveness and ethics of this treatment are heavily debated.

The study you quoted is dated 1963.

Can a sex offender still have sex after he's been castrated? - By Michelle Tsai - Slate Magazine

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is under the spotlight this week for helping grant parole to Wayne Dumond, a convicted rapist who had been castrated more than a decade earlier in what he claimed was a violent attack.* After Dumond was released from prison in 1999, he went on to rape and murder at least one woman, and maybe two. How can someone who's been castrated still commit rape?
 
How can someone who's been castrated still commit rape?

Just to answer the question. Castration usually refers to removal of the testicles, not the penis. And rape can occur without penile penetration - fingers or foreign objects.
 
How can anybody NOT support killing child rapist?
 
It would be a good punshment for any violent crime.

1. It inhibits violence.

2. It limits the proliferation of criminals.
 
It would be a good punshment for any violent crime.

1. It inhibits violence.

2. It limits the proliferation of criminals.

Oh, well that settles it.

This applies to non-violent crime too. Why not just have the death penalty for every crime? It would work pretty well.
 
All child molesters should be shot before they enter any prison.
 
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