Court rules child pornographer’s 120-year sentence is neither cruel nor unusual

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5. That the sentence is greater for pictures than for child rape is absurd

Most people will read this and say, "Big sentence for child molester. Good."

But nowhere at issue in this case is the question of whether raping children is bad.

Of course this man should be removed from civil society, precisely because raping children is bad.

The only entity here that doesn't think raping children is all that bad is the government that handed down the sentence.

A clear-minded person would (one hopes) see the greatest offense in raping the actual boy. But our government, as embodied in its laws, does not think raping children is all that big a deal unless you take pictures. Then it's a big deal.

Which is quite distorted, as a legal issue.