[Skybird]

In a time when pedophile perverts are allowed to publish guides about how to approach children without raising suspicion (Germany, some years ago), it must sound like an "inhumane" idea. However, sexual abberations like this cannot be treated in therapy, the psychological roots anchor too deep in early years of a person's life, and puberty. Chemically you sometimes can achieve some kind of containing effect, but that depends on the cooperation and good willingness of the subject, and alwysy includes the risk of abuse by the subject to create a backdoor through which to slip out.

On non-pedophile, non-alcoholised rapists, I think the simple act of rape demonstrates a certain attitude that frees us from the demand of respecting the offender, and it shows that the offender is invulnerable to learning the evil in what he did.

In these cases I am for castration indeed. If chemically possible with unlimited effect (only one injection per life), then this way, else by surgery.

The interests of victims weigh heavier than the interests of offenders. They are not to be weighted equally. In case of psychological distorted people it may even give them a freedom from their destructive drives that before they had not known, seeing their lives being totally dominated by fighting their fantasies, drives and desires all day long. That's why occasionally people like this are asking for chemical castrations, becaaeu they suffer from them selves and know they are a threat to the public, they suffer from their own nature and are not happy with themselves at all. Mind you: I speak of some offenders here, not of all - many are just this: pervert bastards that simply must be seen as criminals in the first.