Italian bill to castrate rapists (3 Viewers)

[velox]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4125566.stm

Good on them. But you'd want to make sure they'd get the right person.

 

[withoutaface]

Italy's far-right Northern League has presented a bill to castrate convicted rapists

In other worlds the authoritarian nutcases want a bill that will never go through.

 

[Xayma]

I'm against it, possibly if it was only used on serial rapists (of multiple women) purely to stop any vendettas from women. There have been numerous cases where men have been convicted purely on a woman's testimony, even if there was no DNA evidence to link the man.

 

[spell check]

haha as if anyone could ever seriously support this

 

[sarabeara]

how interesting!
well i suppose its a sure fire way to stop them from striking again....
although i think chances are the rapist would end up even more twisted after such a detrimental experience.... if released back into the public would they be even more dangerous?
who knows....
doubt it will pass though! human rights and all. and the law system the way it is...
i find it astonishing that someone can break into your house, stack it on something and break a leg ans sue you for it!! and at the other extreme theres people drink driving and running over little children and not getting any time... even for repeated offences...
seems a bit crazy to me.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

I'm against it, possibly if it was only used on serial rapists (of multiple women) purely to stop any vendettas from women. There have been numerous cases where men have been convicted purely on a woman's testimony, even if there was no DNA evidence to link the man.

If there was sufficient evidence I think it's a brilliant idea.

 

[withoutaface]

Don't they still have a penis? What's to stop them reoffending?

 

[sarabeara]

Don't they still have a penis? What's to stop them reoffending?

I was under the impression castrating removed the penis???? maybe I'm wrong?

 

[spell check]

If there was sufficient evidence I think it's a brilliant idea.

sufficient evidence for what? that they are guilty of rape?

 

[sarabeara]

Really? i didnt know that.... i am not male but i guess my assumption was that guys seem to be so attached to their penises that it would upset them immensely to lose it?
however maybe im wrong about castrating involving losing the penis?

 

[withoutaface]

I was under the impression castrating removed the penis???? maybe I'm wrong?

Castration removes the testicles.

 

[sarabeara]

ah... well then i agree with you, whats to stop them repeating.

 

[spell check]

they wouldn't have the balls for it

 

[Comrade nathan]

I hope they pass it just for the laugh.

Castrating a male makes him less aggressive in the case of bulls and things. It should be the same for humans.

I don't think it will, humans are more complex then bulls. Rape is a social constraint, for instantence in the pre industrial years of human development there wasn't much idea of rape.

There would have been a time you could take a woman and have you way with her. Now days there is allot of socialising involved before sex, usually.

Tody the idea of rape is that someone has a power drive, prison rapings are a good example of this. So there is probably a minority of raping that are caused by aggression.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

sufficient evidence for what? that they are guilty of rape?

Yes (10))))

 

[spell check]

what happens when ten years later someone else confesses to the rape and you've already maimed an innocent person?

 

[iamsickofyear12]

what happens when ten years later someone else confesses to the rape and you've already maimed an innocent person?

That's why I said only if there is sufficient evidence.

 

[spell check]

yeah you said sufficient evidence to convict someone of rape

 

[paper cup]

they wouldn't have the balls for it

oh you're funny aren't you
what Xayma said, if they punished a person where there wasn't sufficient evidence there would be a serious miscarriage of justice.

 

[butterflybird]

seems a bit extreme. and even if you could prove that the act happened by DNA and whatnot, you might have issues of whether or not it was actually 'unwanted'. it just creates too many problems i'd say.
besides, when i read the article it was all in response to the alleged crimes of immigrants, and italians have a major thing against immigrants for some reason. so it's not really for the benefit of women, it seems more like a vendetta against those 'evil' outsiders taking over their country.