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I often see many flaws on the judicial system, but this is definitely not one of them.

I'm glad the human rights became aware enough to say that just MAYBE, maybe a rapist needs help as much as any other mentally ill person.

Why is nobody questioning what is behind the reasons of a rapist? Does he just want to feel some short pleasure and leave? He just want to do evil things because... He wants? Why? Why is nobody considering possible sexual disorders a mind can have? Why is everybody so sure that it's pure evil and must be punished with more evil?

I recently was on a forum and a guy was feeling guilty about his sexual ideation towards women and he called himself a rapist, even tho he didn't end up doing anything at all, I carefully read his whole long post while most of people read only the title and condemned him saying he should die and kill himself.

I think people overestimate human free-will, I can't see how a mind with sexual deviation is less valid than a mind with social deviation that commit crimes against the others.

Our brain is a complex mechanism and not even science understands it very well, how can we be so sure we have absolute control over our decisions?

Before some retarded brainwashed moralist say it, I'm NOT defending rape or rapist, but I sympathize with an ill mind that MAYBE, just maybe isn't accountable for its behaviors, and punishing him with death, as every moralist proudly agree, is just resolving injustice with more injustice. You'll just make the balance of justice weight more on the injustice side.

I don't understand why people are so sure that every single rape crime should be punished with death or even worse, torture. While an overwhelming complex biological system is in control of our decisions.

I'm not minimizing rape or its impact, I'm just aknowleding that endless cycle of violence and agression might not be the solution.

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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

None of this should be construed as advocating for violence:

When you don't kill him, you're causing more suffering to be inflicted on dozens, hundreds of other people because you don't want to make a tough call. Human suffering is a morally complicated situation that doesn't have winners. There's never going to be a perfect solution to human nature. The death penalty wasn't trying to be one- it was a simple community management tool. It prioritized the wellbeing of the whole over the individual.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 minutes ago

People make fun of the Trolley Problem, but the whole point of it is to discuss issues exactly like this, where neither solution is an overall good solution and there is no real right answer.

[–] Steve@communick.news 5 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

It's comfortable to call people monsters, and not have to think about why an ordinary person much like themselves could do sometthing horrible. You just get to put it out of your mind and move on.

[–] Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social 2 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

(sorry for bad english)

Rape is serious crime.

The victim is tramautized and deals with their emotions, the victim will also be afraid of other gender because of the rape.

The solution is not ONLY punishment.

It should be punishment to scare the criminal, and then therapy / rehabilitation for them to improve.

No punishment will decrease the seriousness of the crime.

No rehabilitation / therapy could put the criminal into a downwards spiral and never become a better person.

It should be both.

Death is when the crime is commited 2 times

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)

LOTS of people have done psych analysis on these people, but as far as I know, they haven't found a cure or better therapy/punishment.

I'm sure if they found a treatment, we'd probably start doing that.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

Probably a strong asterisk for "depending on what country." Recitivism tends to be less desired in countries which outsource their prison systems either to other countries or corporations.