Quote:It's simple prison should be about rehabilitation. Taking people who have broken social contracts and teaching them how to not repeat that act, through whatever means you want, education, negative reinforcement, ect....


Some acts can not be rehabilitated, pedophilia is one of them. Someone who severs their conscience and soul to the point of pedophilia should be permenantly removed from society. Since they can't be rehabilitated permenant solution is execution.

I agree on all points. Drug dealers, thieves, and even some murders I believe can be rehabilitated to the point of returning to society. I don't feel the same way about child molesters. There's obviously something not firing right in their brains that makes them do the horrible things they do. It always seems that pedophiles are the highest class of re-offenders once they're released back into society.


I really wasn't looking to politicize this story, but I would like to hear the opinions of the Republicans on this board as to why a Republican appointed judge would hand down a decision such as this? (I'm sure that there has been Democratic appointed judges who have made similar rulings in the past, but Republicans are the ones who always seem to be claiming the moral high ground.)

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