Poland okays forcible castration for pedophiles

[scandal 951]

Someone correct me if I am wrong but this whole article is written to be inflamatory as no one is actually being castrated, rather they will be put on a medication which will zero-out the drive for sex.

Details, details.

Why ruin a perfectly good inflammatory thread with the facts?

That's not the VJ way!

[Niels Bohr 72]

You are garunteed they won't be repeat offenders.

We have sex offenders listing as possible repeaters. If we castrate them, there are no more worries.

[Anastassia 0]

Someone correct me if I am wrong but this whole article is written to be inflamatory as no one is actually being castrated, rather they will be put on a medication which will zero-out the drive for sex.

If a person had a drive to be violent in general would would call medicating him "proper" course of treatment , but when we use a medication to suppress a different type of violence... oh I don't know such as raping little boys or girls.... suddenly the "human Rights" crowd gets all concerned.

Now I would be all for the actual castration of certain types of rapists but this is simply reducing the powerful urges in people who have proven they cannot control them.

Now I know some of the more "highly educated" among us will point out the problem is more mental..... and I don't doubt there is truth to that but until you Egg-Heads can cure the Mental, we shall proceed with what we have.

Say what you want but , it is hard to shoot pool with a rope.

Danno, this is correct.

I work for a law enforcement agency here in USA and those who deal with pedophiles claim this (chemical castration) doesn't work - exactly for the reason you mentioned, this is probably why it's not done here.

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

Eastern Europe is now becoming more kinder and gentler. In my grandfather's time in Belorussia they would have to dig their own grave before before being shot in the back of the head.

Well that's just not right.

they don't have to pay anyone to dig the hole then.

yet .. somebody has to fill-in the hole ....

where do you think the next condemned prisoner is gonna put all that dirt from the hole he's got to dig?

[Danno 1,228]

Someone correct me if I am wrong but this whole article is written to be inflamatory as no one is actually being castrated, rather they will be put on a medication which will zero-out the drive for sex.

If a person had a drive to be violent in general would would call medicating him "proper" course of treatment , but when we use a medication to suppress a different type of violence... oh I don't know such as raping little boys or girls.... suddenly the "human Rights" crowd gets all concerned.

Now I would be all for the actual castration of certain types of rapists but this is simply reducing the powerful urges in people who have proven they cannot control them.

Now I know some of the more "highly educated" among us will point out the problem is more mental..... and I don't doubt there is truth to that but until you Egg-Heads can cure the Mental, we shall proceed with what we have.

Say what you want but , it is hard to shoot pool with a rope.

Danno, this is correct.

I work for a law enforcement agency here in USA and those who deal with pedophiles claim this (chemical castration) doesn't work - exactly for the reason you mentioned, this is probably why it's not done here.

Well hold on a minute... no one said it "didn't" work..... it's just not a silver-bullet.

People have sex with kids for all sorts of reasons, granted a few are total mental cases and even with no sex drive might still seek out a child but this Chemical would have to greatly reduce the urge for a large number and thats good enough for me.

[Danno 1,228]

Oh and the reason we don't use it here (if in fact we don't) would have nothing to do with it's effectiveness and everything to do with that small elite group which is more concerned about "human rights" than victims rights.