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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
In my opinion...
Killing the offender will neither A: prevent abuse from occuring B: help the victims or C: Make our society a better place to live
So other than satisfying some peoples bloodlust I don't see the point...especially if an innocent person or two goes to death row.
And while rape (and other forms of abuse) are vile and despicable, and arguably moreso when the victim is a child (or otherwise helpless)...I just can't consider the crime comparable to slaughtering another person...nor do I think that offenders should be slaughtered themselves
A life sentence with no chance of parole...period is what I want
And maybe someday we can figure out a way to figure out who is susceptible to these crimes and intervene/help before ANY victims are created
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Isn't that an ethical argument though. You can't force treatment or punishment on someone before they commit the crime.
Or if we start seeing the causes or what we think are the causes and either start tinkering with their genes, or we abort the fetus. At that point aren't we into the whole eugenics argument that ended up costing Alberta a lot of money due to law suits, and made the Nazi's reviled.