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In reply to the discussion: Who will be the first to tell me I'm indulging in paranoid fantasies? [View all]Bradical79
(4,490 posts)32. I think you missed the point
The point is that they have served the punishment required according to the decision reached by judge and jury. When you start tacking on additional time and punishment for one group of people after the trial and sentencing has concluded, it could become a slippery slope. Similar logic could be applied to other groups of people. Even sex crimes can be a bit of a gray scale. While few have a problem with a child rapist getting this sort of treatment, the sex offender scale could go all the way down the line to a guy who got drunk and accidentally exposed himself to a group of people or an underage teen who sent some naughty pictures to her boyfriend. Some states have really gone crazy with the sex offender label in the past.
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Who will be the first to tell me I'm indulging in paranoid fantasies? [View all]
Jackpine Radical
Jul 2012
OP
Sounds like the old Soviet Union. If you didn't like the system, you had to be crazy.
leveymg
Jul 2012
#1
The overall rate of sex offense recidivism is in the neighborhood of 5%.
Jackpine Radical
Jul 2012
#5
No, I'm saying that the universal revulsion against sex offenders can be used
Jackpine Radical
Jul 2012
#24
i saw you piloting one of those black UN helicopters over my house, spraying TSP on my garden, so
dionysus
Jul 2012
#17
I can't beleive people are twisting what you say so much on the topic of sex offenders.
white_wolf
Jul 2012
#39
I'n not at all against commitment or protective placement in every circumstance.
Jackpine Radical
Jul 2012
#45
Jackpine, never give the "sensible centrists" and "pragmatic progressives" a bye
TheKentuckian
Jul 2012
#47