At 05:47 PM 5/13/96 +1000, you wrote:

The law has nothing to do with what deserves to be done to rapists.

My point exactly. Rapists deserve a lot of punishment, not getting put in
a jail where they can watch tv and get free meal and free board, etc... And
they do not deserve to get out of jail so they can do it again. They need
something done to them to make sure that they would never do it again...

i think everyone should get a second chance anyways.
if you made a horrible mistake in life and were truly sorry, you don't

deserve

to have your life horribly altered in turn.

What about the victim? The victim had her(his) like 'horribly altered' and
the victim doesn't get a 'second chance'. Why should the criminal get away
with this? No matter how sorry they may (pretend?) to be, they can NOT
undo how they horribly altered the victim's life. And rape is hardly a
'mistake'... it is something people do on purpose. You can't 'accidentally'
rape someone...

but the mind can swear never to do it again.  and that person may become
a great figure.

i think you look at this too subjectively.  the objective approach is right
imho.  you have to look at it from a more compassionate standpoint.

objectively, for instance, the US should have used conventional tactics to
occupy japan rather than nuclear bombs.  god knows what the justification
for the bomb was (other than the loss of American Lives - heh)

objectively, wars would never occur, brawls would never break out, there
would be no hate-groups, and so on.

etc, etc.

signed, phoneynt
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