Re: Executing Child Rapists
I voted no because:
While life has differing value, there is such a thing as individual redemption. Harming and executing such a criminal is not the answer, but breaking and perhaps reforming him psychologically is.
As such, this cannot be done yet, but should be considered.
If only because simply executing the individual does not repair the harm to the child. Imprisoning him does not rectify the damage either.
Psychiatry is not yet knowledgeable enough to fully reform individuals, but I think in time such reprogramming would be possible.
Sounds like anathema to individual freedom, but it's not. It's difficult to implement such measures in an open society, however. I'm not suggesting a totaliarian society, but a more progressive one.
Today, it's probably best to break him mentally and leave him to suffer the consequences.
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