Then yes, its a pointless 'punishment'. The US populace has got to get away from this whole 'punishment' thing that we do to criminals. Criminals need to be removed from society until it is believed they will not commit crimes again, and understand what they did. Punishing them for the rest of their lives, even after you let them out of prison, doesn't help anyone, and especially doesn't help them not commit more crimes.
Only if we start with all the little Mengele wannabes here.
This is a choice that societies have made to allow endless legal battles and to compensate lawyers a great deal to fight them. There's nothing intrinsic about killing someone that's more expensive than caring for them for decades.
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I mean, it's not a policy I'm advocating. From a thought experiment standpoint though, the vast majority of value you'd get is from sterilizing males. There are many more violent male criminals than females and they're capable of producing a lot more kids. That they're also the ones with reversible sterilization is convenient.
A long-term IUD would be pretty comparable though.
No, forced sterilization is just part of an escalating slippery slope that anyone who supports personal autonomy and is against excessive use of governmental power would be against. I'd rather see more crimes become capital offenses than normalize the populace to the idea of forced sterilization.
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Banned at least 10 times. Don't give a fuck, going to keep saying what I want how I want to.
Eat meat. Drink water. Do cardio and burpees. The good life.
yes, it should.
repeat offenders just shouldn't be allowed to spread their dysfunctional genetics.
Essentially, cases where the death penalty is available can only be tried by specific lawyers, heard by specific judges, are entitled to something like 3-4 reviews by other judges, take up a ton of court time, and then they still wait 20-30 years while they try to get retrials and stuff.
It's cheaper to house an inmate in the prison system for 50 years then have them do all that, while housing them for 20.
And we still manage to execute people who turn out to be innocent. Hooray!
So you're going to give a rapist a free vasectomy and set him free?
And that will stop them from raping how?