Why is Castrating GAYS TRANS PEOPLE DEMOCRATS Pedophiles Pointless? YOU must LOVE Pedophiles!

It has the same issues as any other permanent punishment in that if somebody is wrongly convicted then it can't be reversed. Hell, we still execute people we know were wrongly convicted fairly frequently. If this passed then there would definitely be wrongly convicted people getting castrated. Being castrated also doesn't prevent sex offenders from reoffending. The lack of sex hormones would reduce sex drive but for most offenders it's less about the sex and more about control. Also if a reduction in sex drive is the goal then there are chemical means to acheive that (which still don't actually stop sex offenders).

So you would just wind up castrating a few innocent people while still making no difference in the actual offenders ability to reoffend.

Unless we can know with absolute 100% certainty that the accused is guilty then the best thing to do with people who are convicted of henious crimes like that is to just lock them up. That way they can't hurt anyone but if new evidence comes out that proves them innocent then they can be released and the damage can still be somewhat remedied.

Even if we somehow could know with absolute 100% cetainty that they were guilty (I'm not sure how that would even be possible) castration still wouldn't make sense because it still leaves them the chance to reoffend. IMO if we lived in a magical world where absolute truth could be known by all then rapists should just be killed because the risk of a rapist reoffending outweighs the worth of a rapist and nothing else will actually ensure they won't reoffend.

Make sex crimes punishable by castration -> Make it a sex crime to be trans/gay/lesbian -> commit genocide, by definition.

Cool

It’s like the death penalty, once you kill someone it’s too late to say sorry when new evidence comes out and they are innocent.

Besides all the points everyone else has mentioned:

“Even if just one rapist changes his mind about raping a child, I will take that.”

Always be skeptical anytime anyone uses an argument of this form. There are tradeoffs for everything, but this phrasing only serves to stop people from weighing them fairly.

Oh, and the above quote comes from the co-sponser of the bill, who is a Democrat. Just in case you thought this was a Republican problem.

All rights stem from bodily autonomy.

And yeah, with black men being the objects of white psychosexual fears this has a lot of opportunity to become yet another means of disproportionate suffering of black men at the hands of the justice system and for eugenics.

Any time they wanna make a new punishment or criminalize some behavior I figure it’s just because they don’t plan on applying it to white people.

I’ve never figured wrong on this.

Iranian morality police bad. American morality police good.

Bad idea, there are a lot of false convictions. If you wrongly get catsrated that is it.

Everything is so fucking backwards right now it's insane. We've hardly given progress a fair shake.
Bunch of grunting fools.

If the 8th amendment doesn't apply to this, idk what it would ever apply to.

Next bill up for vote: Cutting off hands of shoplifters, and cutting children in half for parents fighting a custody battle.

In most of the southern states, having sex with children is legal if you marry them first. (And minors can’t file for divorce!)

Wonder which states will see a rise in weaponizing rape and misandry following this discussion.

Wow cool so I guess we’re gonna get to see what Christian-flavored sharia religious laws look like in the states. Are we gonna get an all-America version of the morality police too?

If anything, castrating a sex offender makes it _easier _ for him to commit offences.

Far less DNA evidence plus the relative ease of cis men getting testosterone and erectile dysfunction pills.

I might be okay with castration for violent rape. The problem is when it's considered a sex crime for an 18 year old to have sex with a 17 year old. And a lot of other things are branded as sex crimes that shouldn't be. And Republicans want to make it a sex crime to be gay or transgender

That's sick and disgusting.

And what about female offenders?

Coming to all 50 states next year.

Rape is about power, not sex. Why is this being discussed?

Except if it's done against Republicans, then it's funny

Mostly cruel and pointless, of all sex crimes against children for example only a minority are sexually motivated

Much of this crime is perpetrated by people that can't "fit in" with other social groups so this action may increase the likelihood of reoffending

So we can assume they will start with rooting out all the pedophile clergy, yes? No more "transfers" from one small town to the next set of vulnerable rubes?

"pointless" haha.

Maybe they can study all the balls and clits to figure once and for all how to make our sex organs much much bigger naturally.

Impotence and sexual frustration are common factors in a lot of sexual assaults. That's not to say everyone who is impotent or experiences sexual frustration will commit a crime, but we're talking about a subset of people who are already known to have committed sex crimes.