Quote:I agree they should be removed. And they are.- and for malabar's point, you have to rely on the state to do their job right and keep them removed.


You are taking a unique position, in that if they cannot be rehabilitated, then they aren't worth keeping. It doesn't really address whether innocent people would be killed, and whether you are ok with that.


And it is interesting to, from my point of view, that many people convicted of murder are able to be rehabilitated, or may never have been inclined to kill again from the time they kill the first time.


Now I will totally agree that child predators are unable to begin to be rehabilitated. On the other hand, our society doesn't allow them to be put to death unless there is a killing as well.


You also have to admit that the sexual offender and sexual predator laws are flawed big time.

 

Without a doubt the entire legal system is flawed, the sexual offender laws are no exception. 

 

I'm not crazy about how the system works on really any level, I think we need to reduce the size of our entire system and rethink what the purpose of many of our programs are. 

 

You have a point when you say who is the "state" to take a life? Where would they get the authority to end one's life? In the current set up of our legal system I lean more towards ending capital punishment simply because the system is so far corrupt false convictions and inevitably executions are almost guaranteed. However I'm not sure the solution is to put the worse of us on a free ride for life. I know prison isn't necessarily a "Free ride" but essentially it's state ownership of an individual. When an individual has done something deemed so horrendous, beyond rehabilitation, completely severed the ties of trust between themselves and society what else are we to do with them? 

 

I guess you could go the route of "work camps" but is that really better? How long until we hear the work camps are abusive and we can't treat people like that? 

 

The only time I'm "ok" with the notion of the death penalty is in the case of undeniable harm of innocents and a strong indication the individual will repeat the act again. As a society I think we've lost some of the value of life. From a child's conception up to the end of a life, when did we forget as a society how to love? 

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