Posted on 07/13/2005 12:15:06 PM PDT by Crackingham
You'd need to cut off his arms too. How many rapists use their hands or objects?
Yes...we have one locally in COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho...Joseph Edward Duncan...need some rope and a strong tree...
I worked for a psychologist and according to him (and others in the field) pedophiles never "get better". There is NO amount of therapy that loses the urge. castration does NOT do anything for the drive. Putting them away for life is the ONLY solution.
I say kill them, don't care how, but if your gonna let them out you gotta first: pour acid on their face and blind them, castrate them, cut off their hands, remove one kneecap, install a taser system to go off every ten minutes and tattoo 'child molester' on their head.
Maybe but I think shooting them will work too. I could be wrong.
Do you have any idea how many there are to "process"?
Why do you think he's so eager to take this course of punishment over life in jail?
But you may need testicles to be motivated to re-offend.
AMEN!
They can still molest kids, there are plenty of "objects" they can use to do it.
Only if you think that it's a sex crime. It's a power crime - the offender has power over his victim. You don't need testicles for that, or ovaries for that matter. You need a functioning brain, and a way to exert power. Castrate him, and he is still capable of thought, he still has hands, and he can still speak. He's still a danger. As long as he can think, he's capable of the motivation. It's not like neutering a cat so he doesn't spray, or having your dog fixed so he doesn't wander. Kill him, and you remove any chance of him ever doing it again.
You are right that surgical intervention will not stop this, for there are hormones and other drugs. I know a man who had his testicles removed and it did not stop him, so dream on people.
Excellent post!
Actually, the power can be wielded in non sexual ways as well. Sexual control/power is a major contributor to these folks motivation to commit the acts. There is a reason eunichs were made eunichs. Castration may actually simply remove the motivation to exert such power as much as taking away ones Harley Davidson removes their desire to buy chrome accessories.
I agree.
They need to chop the ba*tard* arms off along with his whole package.
I think castration should occur along with the sentence. First he would get surgically emasculated, then placed in the general population of a maximum security prison to serve a life sentence.
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