Thread: What Punishment Would Be Appropriate To Which Crime?
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Old 01-18-2007, 05:11 PM   #34 (permalink)
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However for you to conclude that castration is unusally cruel, you might have a very hard time convincing someone that it is so, if that someone is a mother who has spent years after the fact of sexual abuse, trying to pick up the fractured hearts and lives of her children. Fractured and overwhelmed by the frenzied actions of a man that worked a most cruel and unnecessary act upon the trusting innocence of a child!
The mother you speak of seeks revenge. Cruelty does not justify cruelty, and a criminal's crimes do not justify us in delivering whatever punishment we feel like.

I do not question that sexual abuse interferes with the mental state of the victim. But it seems to me that jail time fractures the criminal's life a lot more than rape fractures the victim's life. Considering that, prison seems like a strong, fair punishment. To take the extra step of permanently removing body parts from the criminal is an unnecessarily cruel act, which goes above and beyond the suffering of the victim, and which goes above and beyond reasonable punishment.

I may have a tough time convincing the mother of this. But then again, I may have a tough time convincing her that the criminal should not be tortured and executed. The mother is bound to be angry, but anger shouldn't cloud our better judgement.
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