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View Poll Results: Should a convicted rapist be castrated?
Yes 26 38.24%
Yes, but only in certain circumstances 12 17.65%
No, it's cruel and unusual punishment 26 38.24%
Not sure 4 5.88%
Voters: 68. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-17-2019, 09:14 PM
 
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Rape is not about sex. It is about power and control.
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Old 07-17-2019, 11:40 PM
 
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Rape is not about sex. It is about power and control.
Ye, thats exactly right!!
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Old 07-18-2019, 12:59 AM
 
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No. They should be hanged by the neck until dead.
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Old 07-18-2019, 01:06 AM
 
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Rape is not about sex. It is about power and control.
For some people, rape may be about power and control. But I find such language to be inadequate in explaining the many different realities of rape.
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Old 07-18-2019, 01:22 AM
 
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Besides all the reasons listed above, castration would be 100% effective at preventing them from doing harm to a child again! I dont have to write out all the different ways someone could 'sexually violate' even if they had been castrated!
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Old 07-18-2019, 01:44 AM
 
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Besides all the reasons listed above, castration would be 100% effective at preventing them from doing harm to a child again! I dont have to write out all the different ways someone could 'sexually violate' even if they had been castrated!
Sadly, it wouldn't. People molest and penetrate children and others with inanimate objects to include broomsticks and other items
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Old 07-18-2019, 03:28 AM
 
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If the court has proven beyond reasonable doubt that a man has raped (defined as vaginal or anal penetration) a woman, man, or child by use of force or coercion, should that rapist be subjected to castration as part of his punishment?
Jesus. How about we start prosecuting them at all. Why go there? And if they penetrate with foreign objects, as with Brock Turner, what do we do we do then? Separate them from foreign objects?

Weird.
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Old 07-18-2019, 03:42 AM
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In the US is 8% of rape preports are determined to be false after investigation according to the FBI, however this does not include those who have been wrongly convicted. It's even higher in some other western countries, with one in tem rape allegations being proved false, hopwever again this might not be the fully story. Indeed it was recently found that in England & Wales, the prosecution wasn't even giving the defence evidence that could have been used to clear defendents names, just how disgusting is that, and as a result innocent people went to jail.

I am sorry but innocent people going to prison is never right and rape must be proved beyond any reasonable doubt and based on all the available evidene, like any other crime. As accusations and injustices are unaccptable as is the stigma involved, and wronfully sending people to prison leaved a lasting scar on peoples lives.

One false accusation is one too many and the idea of castrating people on this basis is beyond belief.

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Old 07-18-2019, 03:44 AM
 
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Rape is not about sex. It is about power and control.
It is about a very specific kind of power and control. Sexual power and control. So.
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Old 07-18-2019, 03:49 AM
 
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Just Bill Clinton...
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