Castration should be MANDATORY before pedophiles are allowed to walk the streets.
Castration should not be considered 'cruel and unusual' punishment for pedophiles.
I would but I have no faith in our government to handle this sanely. Personally I would either put them in colonies with no children or execute them but we currently consider people who have sex with teens pedos. I'm sorry but if I have to get a girls ID to know if she's legal or not I'm not a pedo, I made a bad call but that's it. That certainly doesn't rate castration in my book. We currently considere streakers to be sexual offenders and I'm certain if they did it at a venue that MIGHT have children it could be construed as pedo. Same goes for some guy pissing against a tree when some kids walk by.
If they make it very specific so it only goes after people who are attacking prepubecents then maybe. I'd hav eto see the exact language but I would support that if properly applied.
Then we're cool. Where exactly does the petition stand on that feature though because it is an important selling point for me. I'm just very wary of anything that is sold with the premise of protect the children because that seems to be the rallying cry for we know this wouldn't pass on it's own merits.
It's not about lowering ourselves to their level. Putting down rabid animals is an act of kindess to the animal and of sanitation to the public at large.
If you want to talk about lowering yourself to inhuman standards you're talking life in prison. There is nothing human about that. It is the most cruel thing we are capable of and we've managed to convince ourselves that it's better than death. It isn't. It's far far worse. Either a man can be redeemed and released back into society or he cannot. If he cannot we should kill them. It's that simple.
Who cares what isn't legal, laws can be changed and many of them need to change. Such as life in prison should become the first form of execution found to be inhumane.
You'll never prove anything without a doubt. Reality isn't that clean we have to work with what we're given and choose which way to err. I believe we already give far to much benefit of the doubt in many cases.
Chicken taking away half of a prisoners wages would be criminal. They don't get paid enough as is.