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Originally Posted by stuartbe
Are we forgeting something here people... We are debating about the human rights of the ofender.. Should he be castrated / should he get a nice cushy cell then 24hour police protection !!!
Can I just point out the obvios ---- SOD HIM --- What about the child ???? The child is the person who has to live with what happened for the rest of there lives.
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I'm sorry, Stuartbe, but this is *EXACTLY* what I am talking about when I refer to "Appeal to Emotion".
I am *not* forgetting about the child, however neither am I forgetting that *everyone*, *including* the child *and* the offender have rights!
If we forget that, if we allow emotion to override reason, we risk allowing lynch law, we risk damaging our system of justice and we risk losing those principles by which we call ourselves "civilised".