I don't think he understands Chinese, Daft.
wonder what handless muslims do for work
@Absurd quod erat demonstrandum
What about those poor surgeons who'll be spending their days piling up those tainted privates?
I'm what you might call a humanist. I believe that human beings are born with certain inalienable rights. Namely, not getting your shwing-shwong swiped or your clit snipped. I know I'm not perfect and god forbid that next time I watch Miley Cyrus twerk all up in Robin Thicke's business at the VMAs the government sets up an appointment to poach my pecker. However, the moment I start blaring some of that tween love in the quiet section of my local library you can bet I'll be kicked out in short order.
There, ladies and gentlemen, is our solution. In the library that is the great nation we call America certain songs are not to be played. So if you want to go on raping, pillaging, and committing all sorts of lecherous debauchery then that's fine, ya just can't do it where our fine citizens are metaphorically trying to study for a calc exam. So I say to all you morally suspect individuals, we've got a moon base just for you and extradition passes aplenty.
Now sit down, shut up, and stap in because it's a long trip and you aren't coming back.
Easy Day
men were born to rape and pillage.
Considering how many sex offenders who are released repeat their crimes it's something that needs to be done. I think I'd do it on a case by case basis if I was in charge though. Still I'd rather side too heavy on castration than the other way.
Since this happened in Alabama I'm going to assume this law was inspired by the bible passage which prescibes castration for sex addiction.
If I remember correctly, chemical castration isn't as effective as physical castration. Chemical castration I don't think is permanent.
A child has a right to their body not being abused... But the child sex offenders violate that right... thus they forfeit their rights.
For a compulsive molester castration is going to be a liberating experience, really. They aren't going to like it. But in the end tHey'll be free of their compulsion and be able to lead a normal life (except having no working penis)
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In german there's a special term for these kind of punishments it's called "spiegelnde strafen ("reflecting penaltys") e.g. cut the thief a hand off. Until the 19th century they were common punishments.
In my opinion a heavy child abuser might even deserve this(castration) on a meta level still the singel case is not worth to throw essential human rights (e.g. human dignity) over board which are part of western democraties.
If a sexual offender wants to be castrated I think it's fair to lessen his prison penalty.
Why not just kill the offenders and get it over with? If you're going to go that far that is.
What exactly would consist of sex offense and where would government draw the line of what is and isn't worthy of castration?
I am however for it if there was a system that seemed both fair and just.
Also in my personal opinion there would need to be PHYSICAL evidence and not based on hearsay before a person's member was cut off.
There might be men that have to forgo balls for the good of mankind... they are war casualties. As long as I'm not one of them I'm okay with it
I was actually slightly confused at first, I mixed up castration with penectomy. However, I have rethought my answer (which has nothing to do with the definition). I think I should defer judgement because I don't actually know the correlation rates to recidivism and castration. There are people with easier access to the data than I do who can probably make sounder judgements.
alabama, eh? this law better not apply to any of the biblical patriarchs.
I don't see how castration solves anything at all when the problem is with the brain (which has neuroplasticity enough to reorganize itself by forming new connections.)
ILI 5w6
Why stop at sex offenders? We should cut out any thing and everything societies abhors. Worked for the chineses communists, the nazi's, and so on yada yada yada. Even works for online communities.
Yes, essentially I am saying that blanket justice, taken to extreme by the nazi's, is no different then the kind of punishment that a society would give to a sex offender if it were allowed to removes his balls after he commits the crime of molestation.
You do not suddenly forfeit your rights to person hood because you have committed a crime against someone one elses. If that were the case then the rights of the individual would be completly null and void and the rights of society would be more important. Fortunately that is not how modern justice is set-up and it's for this reason we do not cut off peoples balls no matter how offensive their crimes. This idea of the rights of the individual is actually a product of world war two and is one of the main reasons the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written. All in all this world is pretty advanced and enlightened. Enlightened enough not to demand a pound of flesh from the purputrator, which in my opinion would do nothing to help heal the victim. I'm sorry if you feel otherwise we are allowed to disagree.
It's foremost the victims that abhor it, then society at large if you want to go there. it's not just an arbitrary social disagreement when you have definite victims. Pedophiles will always try to justify what they do by arguing that the children actually enjoy it. Well a child is powerless, and people learn to enjoy pain to get through it... that's how stockholm syndrome develops.
it's not personhood. it's balls. in my view taking away someones freedom is at least as much a violation of personhood. hell, we even have a death penalty.
i'm trying to grasp your mindset better by imagining myself befriending a pedophile and seeing humanity in them, etc. and i can do that but i still don't mind the idea of them getting castrated if they raped a child.
that said i did change my mind about this anyway since its not like it would stop a sick person from fondling or a woman or whatever.