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In article <199607130421.XAA00528@alpha.jpunix.com>, Baal@nym.jpunix.com wrote:
> 
> When it comes to certain subjects, particularly the subject of children
> and sex, there is an automatic knee-jerk reaction--"Kill the pedophiles!
> Castrate them!" etc.

My manual/non-knee-jerk reaction: Kill them? No, unless they had killed
someone (different discussion).  Castrate them?  If they consented,
perhaps for a lighter sentence, and if there was evidence that this
would be effective and protect society, then yes, I think so.  As a 
punitive action, no.


> Look at some of the demonstrations we've seen in
> Canada by irate parents who don't want a pedophile in their
> neighbourhood.

Would you?

> These are men who have already served their sentences;
> yet the public is still out for blood--there have even been calls for
> life imprisonment for pedophile offences.
> 

Pedophilia is not curable, IMHO.   Can a regular heterosexual be 
rehabilitated to "cure" their attraction for the opposite sex?  
Doubtful that it would be effective or permanent.  
Lifetime supervision of some sort is not unreasonable.

Should they still be able to SAY whatever they want on the
Internet?  Yes, I think so. 
Should they, as INDIVIDUALS, posting or in possession of truly illegal
PICTURES, be prosecuted?  Yes, I think so.

-- 
Bob Daniel              rgd@inforamp.net
Toronto, Canada         http://www.inforamp.net/~rgd