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Originally Posted by Earl of Bronze
My objection is not based on the sentence itself. But my own personal hate of this kind of person. In our society we are supposed to protect the young of the species, not sexually assault them. While other people on this forum may be happy to jail all criminals of all types. Personally I see it as a huge waste of taxpayers money. Spend £1500 a week feeling a convicted sex offender or murderer in prison for the rest of their lives, or spend £1 and shoot the filth in the back of the head.
I'll go for the extreme example of cost effectiveness, thankyou very much.
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Well I guess the death penalty is whole new thread, save to say public opinion is roughly 50/50 as far as I remember. Personally I don't believe that any human being has the right to kill any other human being, and I particularly think this is the case when using the death penalty for punishment. I have heard all the shallow arguments that those with the same beliefs as me come up with, like what if we get the sentance wrong etc etc etc.
Personally this has nothing to do with it for me. I as one man have no right to take the life of another. Full stop.
But to go bck to the relevance of this thread, I am more than happy to pay for someone who commits this kind of crime to be kept in prison for the rest of their life. They are a danger to society, generally peodofiles cannot be 'cured', so they should be kept away from society.
But it is not this individual's fault that he was (in my ideal world's standards) inadequately sentanced. He has served his time like it or not.