Indonesia introduces death penalty and chemical castration for pedophiles; thoughts?

[Bartholomert]

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...or-paedophiles

I stumbled across this link while procrastinating for my law school journal assignment (and after watching A Time to Kill; at best a 5.5/10, very formulaic movie would not recommend although the tacit endorsement of drunk driving was kinda novel), and it got me thinking...I am really not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, clearly the punishments seem to be extreme/barbaric especially combined with the very real existence of false convictions...and yet, I think the importance of maximum stigmatization of pedophiles, the (unspoken) eugenics aspect, and the horrific nature of sexual crimes committed against children make me (emotionally) in favor of the legislation.

On the whole, I think I would welcome the punishment as an option so long as it was reserved for particularly egregious and conclusively proven violations.

Also relevant: http://www.thenewamerican.com/cultur...-to-pedophilia

[Yaysus]

[SincereTheRebel]

Good, its about time they get taken out like this. Im all for this.

Reading the article, poland and japan have also passed similar laws. I wasnt aware of this but i would like to say, respect to mert for bringing this to my attention.

[Disco]

It's a bit much.

[SincereTheRebel]

Castrate them
Hang them
Set them ablaze
Execute them

In that order.

[Shindig]

It's a mental illness but ... yeah, less of the crime, please.

[Manc]

I often wonder the mindset of a paedophile.

[mo]

Castrate them
Hang them
Set them ablaze
Execute them

In that order.

You forgot hanging, drawing and quartering, followed by putting their head on a stick outside their village.

[Adam]

Send them to the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa for a good ol' beheading. Filthy fuckers.

[Kikó]

What does it achieve? It's a horrendous crime but these people are clearly wired the wrong way so it's not going to change behaviour.

[Shindig]

Send them to the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa for a good ol' beheading. Filthy fuckers.

ISIS might be into that sort of thing. Like how they slung the gay partner of a commander off a building but let the commander off.

[phonics]

Wasn't it Indonesia that was doing this to gay people not 20 years ago?