Photon,
Respectfully, you tried to parallel homosexuality and pedophilia, and how society perceives and deals with them. Can you not see the fundamental difference between them? Can you not see one requires severe reaction while the other does not? Even when homosexuality wasn't given the level of acceptance it has today, was it ever considered as evil as raping children?
There is a reason homosexuality has obtained the higher level of acceptance than child rape. Without putting words in anyone's mouth, I hope we can at least agree on that.
... and for that I do not see how your parallel has any bearing on this topic.
As far as who gets to be the judge, well it certainly isn't me, and never will be, but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion about the manner in which we proceed.
I am not going to get into the slippery slope argument with you and draw a line where people do and do not deserve to die. I will just simply say this particular man, in this particular case is on the wrong side of that line.
You may call it a middle aged response, but protecting the right to live of monsters such as this man, and keeping the potential alive for reoccurance is not what I consider progress.
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