Re: [IAC++] Fwd: Mandatory CASTRATION for rapists

I think a time when law and order seems extremely shaky is not a good one to go around sabotaging it further with arbitrary and emotional rewrites that further wreck its credibility.

The need of the hour is to ensure that punishment happens and it keeps happening consistently. Reporting of rapes needs to be more women friendly, investigations need to find more culprits, with more evidence. 

In the long term, harsh penalties, particularly against specific kinds of rapes - gang rapes, rapes combined with assault, rapes leading to permanent injury/death, etc. However, it is important to not base these revisions on one or more specific cases, but to provide a well reasoned, balanced approach that also ensures that irreversible damage is not done to innocents through misuse of protections.

Castration is easy, but returning a penis to an innocent castrated is not. The same goes for hanging. Life imprisonment should be used more, social interventions to create awareness, punishment for public figures making anti-women statements for "outraging the modesty of women", .... many actions are possible within existing laws, that can send a clear message that subjugation of women will not be tolerated.

It is leaders that set norms of what is permissible in a certain space - even if the space is a country. If criminals get pardon, rapists get political protection, derogatory statements against women get votes, then no law can save women, because how seriously to take the laws will be set by public examples.

Hope this makes sense.

Vidut