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Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb
He was arrested under the law. And I would like to see the LAW change to put automatic death penalties on all of them. Just my opinion and I stand by it.
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So arrest equals conviction, then?
Some countries do things that way. Zimbabwe, for instance. I suppose it saves all the bother of these "trial" things, which sometimes don't come out the way the authorities want. Thankfully the US hasn't gotten there yet.
There's another law you're not taking into consideration: the
Law of Unintended Consequences. If you want death for everyone arrested for child abuse (even people like Gerald Amirault, I assume?) ... naturally, people are going to try not to be arrested. If, as you say, it's not possible for someone inclined that way
not to molest children (though the numbers seem to show otherwise), then they can't stop the molesting; therefore, they have to stop the arresting. Dead children tell no tales. If someone molests a child, they would never, ever run the risk that the child may talk. That child would disappear, and maybe some bones would turn up in a burn barrel somewhere, or, for the smart ones, nothing would ever turn up at all. What would they have to lose? You couldn't kill them twice. If the penalty for child molestation is the same as the penalty for murder, there's no reason for them
not to progress to murder ... which is, by the way, on the low end of the spectrum, solution-wise. So now, instead of a child molester who might be caught and stopped, you have a murderer. How many children will he kill before he is stopped? How many is too many?
Despite what the Internet Tough Guys believe, it's never that simple. And it's never that easy.