George Costanza
A Friendly Liberal
Not for sex with a minor. Meaning not if an 18 year old slept with a sixteen year old ect. I think 12 and younger validates child molestation.
Why you ask? Because it's sick and it destroys the rest of that Childs Life. Children have to be protected bro. I assure you there would be much less violators. ~BH
All right - but there are plenty of other crimes that destroy the rest of a person's life, child or older, and in far worse ways than a child's life is affected by molestation at an early age.
Why the death penalty for this particular crime?
Why do I ask? You aren't going to like the answer. I ask, because I see a particular tendency on the part of many politically conservative folks, to come down hard on people they perceive as different than themselves. Certainly, child molestors are quite different than most of us. But so are gay people. And underpriviledged people.
So I suspect, that when many politically conservative people clamor for the death penalty for child molestors, their true motivation for doing so (their hidden agenda, if you will), is nothing more than a perverse desire to come down extra hard on someone who is different. Sure, child molestors affect the lives of the children they molest. But suppose an otherwise normal, straight, white, adult male got drunk and hit a car driven by a very pretty young woman, smashing her face in and ruining her good looks for the rest of her life. Death penalty for him?
Possibly not the best example I could come up with, but I think it conveys my point.
Can you honestly say that your feeling that the death penalty for child molestors is motivated entirely by concern for the welfare of the child involved? None of that feeling has to do with your feelings about child molestors in general, separate and apart from any harm to the child inolved?
That is very bad example George. You are absolutely incorrect to assume that it is Political or personal. I have children and those are my honest feelings. I also have a brother who is gay. By the way, Being Gay has nothing to do with perverted child predators. Nice deflection though bro. ~BH
Deflection? From what? I am asking about what your motivation is behind your feeling that child molestors should get the death penalty.
I brought gays into the picture not to compare them in any way with child molestors but, rather, to show them as but one of the examples of minority groups (if you will) that are persecuted and set upon by many conservatives and by many conservative policies.
Seems to me that if anyone is deflecting here, it is you.
But be that as it may - OK, you deny any personal desire to simply mess over child molestors as a basis for your feeling they should get the death penalty. If you say so, there is little I can do to counter that. If that is really true, more power to you.
I will agree that child molestation is a pretty volitile crime - it engenders very strong, emotional reactions in those victimized by it, both the children involved and probably to a greater extent, the adults in the lives of those children. I am not sure that the death penalty is proper for child molestors. For whatever it is worth, child molestors are sick people who cannot control what they do. Being sick and being unable to control what you do does not excuse the commission of crimes - but I think it is a factor that should be taken into account when dolling out punishment.