OK considering chemical castration for sex offenders

[brushfire]

The same people who protect us from terrorists? These people who have to write laws to protect us from ourselves, and must sneak laws through because we dont know any better? The very same people who brought us the post office - a floundering entity despiting this being the age of catalog/internet shopping?

Yea, sure... give them the ability to chemically castrate people. What could possibly go wrong there? Glad I dont live in OK - this coming from someone who lives in IL.

[DamianTV]

Someone please define both what a "Sex Offender" is and is not!

Sex Offender is:
- Rapist
- Child Molesotor

Sex Offender is NOT:
- Two teenagers sexting
- Mooning someone
- Public Urination

Sex Offender to them is:
- Gay
- Bisexual
- Consentual Teenage Sex with more than two years of age difference
- Public Urination
- Mooning Someone
- Sexting at any age
- Sexual Harassment
- Sexual Discrimination
- Premarital Intercourse
- Sexual Positions that are not "Missionary"
- Telling "Dirty" Jokes
- Adjusting a protective Cup during Sports Play
- Scratching ones Balls
- Observing anything pornographic in nature
- Kinks and Fetishes
- Watching the Discovery Channel animal mating rituals
- Taking $#@! out of context: IE: Hey baby, want me to "rotate your tires for free with your lube job"?
- ObGyn, even as a Medical Profession
- Owning a Greek Statue
- Observing Nude Art
- Breast Feeding
- Smoking / Consuming Alcohol during Pregnancy (all prescription drugs are just fine)


So, anyone wanna add or clarify any misconceptions on that list? To someone, something will be "sexual" in nature and the individual will be slapped with the label "sexual deviant". Might just as well call them a "Witch" and burn them at the stake.

[juleswin]

What do you have for a serial child molester who didn't use their member to commit their crime? Chop of their hands like in Saudi Arabia? their tongue? or both? I don't know the answer but chemical castration scares the hell out of me especially when you consider what qualifies for a sex offender these days.

[CaptainAmerica]

this is somewhat alarming, cruel and unusual punishment yes

[CaptainAmerica]

by the way, if a coworker, boss or anyone claims that you harassed them and you are innocent....good by to your genitals.

[Okie RP fan]

Are you a Constitutionalist? Chemical castration, it seems to me, violates the prohibition against "cruel or unusual punishment" on that piece of parchment. (8th ammendment)

Oh, boy, here we go with the credential questioning...

I understand your premise and would agree in principal. However, these are child molesters and rapists we're talking about. I have very little sympathy for these types of people, whether they have a legitimate "disease" or whether they choose that lifestyle. If you disagree with that, fine, we'll leave it at that. Regardless, their actions are heinous, the acts they commit to innocent people. No more heinous than a punishment such as this. A punishment that may actually truly fit the crime for once.

As for all of the caveats people are discussing, what if it were defined as the perpetrator absolutely positively 100% was proven they were the aggressor in the situation, or more specifically, multiple times? Naturally, our definitions of "sex offender" would have to be re-written and perhaps with varying degrees...

Oh, Lord... And this is why this is a bad idea. We cannot trust our "elected" officials to write clean checks, let alone do any of the above.

I now oppose this.