I understand the strong emotions here, but it’s generally a very bad idea to go for physical punishments like chemical castration or a death sentence. Innocent people will get hurt by that, and that’s imo an unacceptable injustice. Denying people’s rights for whatever reason will be misused or abused.
I acknowledge that wrongful convictions happen. But considering how difficult it is to prove sex crimes in the first place, I don’t think this particular type of crime is as risky as some of the others.
That said.
For there to be such extreme punishment, the standards for guilt should be very strongly supported. Videos. Photographs. Medical records.
And there would, of course, have to be some objective guidelines on how that is determined so that it’s not applied with bias towards some groups.
I understand the strong emotions here, but it’s generally a very bad idea to go for physical punishments like chemical castration or a death sentence. Innocent people will get hurt by that, and that’s imo an unacceptable injustice. Denying people’s rights for whatever reason will be misused or abused.
I acknowledge that wrongful convictions happen. But considering how difficult it is to prove sex crimes in the first place, I don’t think this particular type of crime is as risky as some of the others.
That said.
For there to be such extreme punishment, the standards for guilt should be very strongly supported. Videos. Photographs. Medical records.
And there would, of course, have to be some objective guidelines on how that is determined so that it’s not applied with bias towards some groups.