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I am in favor of the death penalty for real child molesters, but your proposal is idiotic moral hysteria.

Not idiotic. Just not carefully planned. Perhaps as in my previous post the law could best be worded with severe penalties for those who molest only one teen, but those convicted of molesting more than one could receive death?

People maybe do not understand how an adult having sex with a teen ruins the teen's thinking and life for some time, if not forever. This should be discouraged strongly. Penalties now are not strong enough.

We can't compare this with our grandparents, who married in their teens. That was very different from today's coaches and teachers getting off on their students.

Elvis Presley once noted that he had bedded 5000 girls. He had his pick of thousands of adoring young women. How many do you suppose he asked for ID? How many grandmothers are out there now who were among the chosen? Is it a 'treasured secret' or a 'buried nightmare'? Would the general society have been better served with Elvis swinging from a lamp post? Lots of questions and few clear answers.

I know of one County Attorney who was elected partly on a promise to vigorously prosecute every "child molester" (and partly because his opponent was caught with a near underage girl). He asked the Sheriff to bring him every case because he was going to clean up the county. Within weeks he had so many cases that it would have taken his entire staff his entire term to prosecute them if they handled no other cases. He had to back completely off. It is far more prevalent than most people recognize.