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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tbh, this seems totally reasonable and more places should do this. These people may have a mental issue, however have proven that they cannot be trusted. Although it's worth noting this won't completely halt sex drive, but reduce it.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My first reaction is yes.

My second reaction that this is bad for the same reason as the death penalty. These penalties are permanent for the wrongly convicted too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Yeah, also I don’t trust a government to have the power to enact cruel punishments even for reprehensible crimes. It just incentivizes the government to find ways to frame things it doesn’t like as those crimes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's always that. It is true, but there is still permanency in losing the years in jail. Maybe they just need to be more strict on who gets castrated. I.E only after serving the full sentance and being released.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Every day in jail is an opportunity to reverse an unjust ruling. (Probably not applicable to all countries.) Death and dismemberment is immediate, definitive, and unnecessary. If that happened to just one innocent person, I would say it's not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

If you can’t keep it to yourself, well… then you can’t keep it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Amnesty International is really showing their neoliberal bias with this one. There are a zillion takes that they could have used to say this is wrong, "child rapists deserve dignity" was far from their best choice, but it certainly is the most revealing one.