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I can understand your feelings of rage against whoever violated you, but laws and punishments are not supposed to be created out of anger. There are so many systems of checks and balances inherent in our system to prevent anger and revenge from becoming legislation. And the reason for that is because sooner or later innocent people become caught in the crossfire. Whoever raped you should have to pay. But not Joe Average who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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I am not enraged at all. After 10 years I have put aside any anger I harbored. As a mater of fact, for many years I was very much opposed to the death penalty & harsher punishment of criminals. But after years & years of seeing criminals go free, murders released after 6 months...rapists let out to rape again with nothing more than a slap on the wrist...molesters allowed to roam freely in society, I have grown disgusted with our so-called justice system. Which is why my views have changed. I am now all for the castration of rapists & child molesters...since they use their genitalia as a weapon I say remove the weapon. And I stand firmly behind my Criminals for Medical Testing. I only wish someone with any real power to enact it would listen!
As for Joe Average who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I can only say that NO justice system is perfect...but I would rather a harsher punishment system set up than a more lax on. Maybe, if say, a molester had something very real to fear if they hurt a child then maybe they would think twice before sexually violating a 5 year old.
I think that is what is so wrong with America these days. We have become so Politically Correct...so afraid of offending someone...so afraid of violating someone's rights, that we forget that some people do not deserve the right reserved for human beings. Terrorists for one. Murders for another. Rapists & child molesters for a third. These are people who are not people at all. These are diseases. And as such they should not be afforded the human rights people such as us in the law-abiding civilized world deserve.