Re: Way to go Australia
I've not looked into the detail of this.
Is it a 35 year old abusing a 7 year old, or does it include a 19 year old screwing a 15 year old who said she was 18 when they met at the 18+ only night club?
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I am all for chemical castration in the worst cases, but if they're allowed in the community then they should be safe to be outside.
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Re: Way to go Australia
I have no idea what the edited OP is about.
Anyway, measures like these do absolutely nothing whatsoever to protect children. All it can ever do, is add additional punishment to offenders, after they have served their time and is supposed to be free, de facto creating a life-sentence for all sex offences.
If your kid is abused, it won't be from a stranger in a park. It will be your father, uncle, teacher, football coach, local priest or, one of the worst, the 12-year old boy next door.
Different kind of measures need to be taken if your aim is to actually reduce the number of abused children. If all you want to do is create the illusion of security without making anyone a tiny bit safer, this is the perfect measure.
Conservatism in a nutshell, in other words. High on symbolism, low on reality.
Last edited by HoreTore; 10-15-2012 at 23:08.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Way to go Australia
I simply took some of Fragony's original points and worked them into a tangible opening post with a news source, opposed to simply locking the topic.
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Re: Way to go Australia
Either these people have served their time or they haven't. If they are so dangerous that they need to have a list follow them around for the rest of their lives, they may as well be kept in prison.
If we as a society do not believe that sex offenders can be rehabilitated, make the punishment a mandatory life sentence. Otherwise, these lists are cruel and abusive.
Re: Way to go Australia
Spot on if you ask me.Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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Not a mandatory sentence, just kill them, much better. It's not really murder as they are sick.
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You do know that 30-50% of all offenders are minors themselves, right?
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Way to go Australia
Not to mention that the majority of abusers are family or friends... just like murders and assaults, but people like to focus on the "stranger danger".
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Re: Way to go Australia
So don't kill these. But pedophilae can't be cured, and jail costs more than 200 euro's a day a person. Much better to euthanise them. Having any pity whatsoever is getting it all wrong. That kinda conflicts with our law so I like how Australia does it, you may not be dead but you will never be really alive either.
Re: Way to go Australia
Word.
EDIT: Me, HT and PJ agreeing. Now if we could just cure cancer...
Last edited by Kadagar_AV; 10-16-2012 at 08:14.
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