Right...
As mentioned before, there are countless many different types of sex offender, but conversation tends to gravitate towards kiddy fiddlers, so let's get one thing out of the way first:
IF I EVER CATCH SOMEBODY DOING BAD THINGS TO EITHER ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS, I WILL INFLICT UNSPEAKABLE AGONY UPON THAT PERSON. I will probably do jail time after that, but I don't care.
However, there is no point in changing the law so that the legal punishment for these people is having their entrails torn out and fed to them. It will not act as a deterrent.
Like anybody, these people are driven by simple sexual motives, twisted as theirs may be. Like a gay person can not just decide to up and quit being gay, a kiddy fiddler can not stop being attracted to children.
Thankfully most of them can control their desires and decide to live a rather pitiful life, constantly fighting their urges. If anything, these people are to be pitied. (Honesty obliges me to admit that I wouldn't wanna live next to one though, despite his ability to control himself.)
Some even choose chemical or physical castration as the ultimate means of controlling themselves. As a man, can you imagine doing that? I can't...
Now, that small group that does give in to their urges, like the gay people that can't stop being gay, can't deny what they are, abhorrent as they me be to us. They still would not be able to better control themselves if penalties were far more severe than they are now. They are what they are and they do what they do.
You could argue that in that case, just shoot them all dead and be done with it if they aren't able to change their ways. There is however one thing that we should always keep in mind. The moral high ground. A society should have it's own morality and not change it's moral codes depending on who it's dealling with. Either torture the sh*t out of everybody or nobody at all. Simples.
As mentioned before, there are countless many different types of sex offender, but conversation tends to gravitate towards kiddy fiddlers, so let's get one thing out of the way first:
IF I EVER CATCH SOMEBODY DOING BAD THINGS TO EITHER ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS, I WILL INFLICT UNSPEAKABLE AGONY UPON THAT PERSON. I will probably do jail time after that, but I don't care.
However, there is no point in changing the law so that the legal punishment for these people is having their entrails torn out and fed to them. It will not act as a deterrent.
Like anybody, these people are driven by simple sexual motives, twisted as theirs may be. Like a gay person can not just decide to up and quit being gay, a kiddy fiddler can not stop being attracted to children.
Thankfully most of them can control their desires and decide to live a rather pitiful life, constantly fighting their urges. If anything, these people are to be pitied. (Honesty obliges me to admit that I wouldn't wanna live next to one though, despite his ability to control himself.)
Some even choose chemical or physical castration as the ultimate means of controlling themselves. As a man, can you imagine doing that? I can't...
Now, that small group that does give in to their urges, like the gay people that can't stop being gay, can't deny what they are, abhorrent as they me be to us. They still would not be able to better control themselves if penalties were far more severe than they are now. They are what they are and they do what they do.
You could argue that in that case, just shoot them all dead and be done with it if they aren't able to change their ways. There is however one thing that we should always keep in mind. The moral high ground. A society should have it's own morality and not change it's moral codes depending on who it's dealling with. Either torture the sh*t out of everybody or nobody at all. Simples.