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Originally Posted by Tishabet
Rick,
for the record, I'm actually on your side of this debate. That being said, can't the devil's advocate side of me restate your quote to be
"Any crime in which a person victimizes another person based on their race/gender/orientation/etc should be punished more harshly, preferably by death or castration. People who victimize other people based on their race/gender/orientation/etc are never cured or rehabilitated. They need to be permanently shut down."
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Sorry. Kids are different. They don't have a fraction of the judgment or physical ability to deter, resist or sometimes even recognize crimes against them. Not saying that any special laws will deter crimes against kids. I don't believe they do. But the larger issue is that adults who commit such crimes against kids cannot be deterred or rehab'ed. It just doesn't happen. No one kidnaps and rapes a little girl and then, while sitting in prison for 10-20 yrs., decides he won't do it again when he gets out. Such people are predisposed to those crimes and so they need to be locked up like the animals they are.
BTW, one of my fraternity brothers was just released after a seven year stint in the joint for having sex with two girls he coached in cheerleading. He went to the trouble of arranging a total scam of a competition in England, where he could more easily get them drunk and have their parents not be anywhere nearby. I haven't talked with him since before he went in. But let's just say none of it was a surprise to any of us who knew his antics in college. He didn't go after little kids, but rather under-18 girls. Now he has a felony conviction, a seven year gap in his resume, a name a lot of folks in his state recognize and not much in the way of employment opportunities. What are the odds he'll never have another brush with the law?