Executing Child Rapists

[JMAnon]

[TheCutter]

Personally I do not want to kill anyone. I wouldn't mind to see them executed by the government/justice system however, or by some random person who just doesn't like child rapists. Which do I vote?

[FortunaMaximus]

Yes by extension, I suppose.

I find such crimes despicable and would rather have a month with the individual. I'll happily spare the details. A child's innocence has high value in my personal morality.

[jogsxyz]

I also favor executing the rapist even when he's criminally insane.

[hitch1978]

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Personally I do not want to kill anyone. I wouldn't mind to see them executed by the government/justice system however, or by some random person who just doesn't like child rapists. Which do I vote?

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I am kind opposite to this.

I am against the death penalty, and would not want to use it in this case, but, in the situation you descride I would very much want to murder the person involved. Slowly preferably. However that would be an emotional thing and not rational.

[bbbaddd]

The motivation to prey on a helpless individual for the sake of your own sadistic enjoyment is sickening. I'd feel not an ounce of pity for a child rapist meeting a gruesome and agonizing demise, even if they were mentally handicapped.

That said, I am against a state sponsored execution policy. The probability of being innocent and proven guilty is too high in the current justice system to consider killing some of the people that it convicts.

[JammyDodga]

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The motivation to prey on a helpless individual for the sake of your own sadistic enjoyment is sickening. I'd feel not an ounce of pity for a child rapist meeting a gruesome and agonizing demise, even if they were mentally handicapped.


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[bocablkr]

Yes, but what is your point?

[JMAnon]

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Yes, but what is your point?

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I don't have one; it is a poll to gauge sentiment.

[FortunaMaximus]

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.