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LadyEllen -> RE: even the powerful are sick (10/9/2007 3:44:23 AM)
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I think sick is exactly the right word - and as yet it seems, there is no cure for these people. Prison only has the benefit of keeping them off the streets for a short time - in the UK the sentences are pitifully weak, they serve only half of them and get time off for the period of incarceration prior to trial; then theyre back out in the world, still subject to the same compulsions. But what do we do with such people? There's some indication that castration is a solution for the males - but there are enough females involved in this stuff too, would you believe? But is that enough? I have to confess, that with two children at home, I wouldnt be at all comfortable if a convicted paedophile lived in my street, even if he'd been castrated. I might be just about comfortable if he wore an orange jumpsuit 24/7 so everyone knew who he was - but then, his life expectancy would be about zero. And there is the issue with castration, that its supposedly an infringement of his civil rights and therefore not allowed. But, if we see this activity for what I believe it is - a sickness of the mind, and its permissible to drug people stupid who are diagnosed with other sicknesses of the mind, then I dont see how his rights are being infringed by way of potential cure? Otherwise, the only satisfactory solution for me is full term life imprisonment because I'm sorry, his rights to walk the streets end when he is a danger to children in the same way that one's rights to walk the street end when one is a danger to others because of psychopathology. E
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