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In reply to the discussion: Woman can wear whatever they want..... [View all]Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)be equal to shoplifting too - shoplifting or voyeurism or loitering? I'm against a death penalty for any offense. But a life sentence protects society from a murderer's tendency to take other's lives. I'm willing to pay to keep them isolated. When you think about it, a murder only subjects the victim to temporary suffering at it's worst. It's the significant survivors who suffer the most.
With a rape, the victim suffers for the rest of their living years - possibly physically, certainly mentally. But the perp gets a slap and some counseling and they're turned back out to a sea of temptation with no guarantee they're reformed. Nah - lets get verifiable certainty that they're no longer a danger to anyone (sexually). Maybe the threat of neutering would work no better as a deterrent than the death penalty does. But the fact that we wouldn't have to pay for these misfits to spend years in humane incarceration would be a plus to anyone that pays taxes.