Mark Taylor equates internet porn with videogames and sexual predators.

Originally Posted by neus

And, so, what - we ought to allow them to rape children with 1 year in prison per child raped? Or castrate them after an offense? Do you believe the only way to harm a child is by one's genitals?
As a society, we've already chosen to punish the criminals instead of curing the causes of their actions. I'm arguing that such a course of action ought to be taken to its next logical step - tougher punishment. An in-between policy of inadequate punishment will not only fail to remove the crime's causes, it will also encourage repeat offenders. If a policy is to be followed, it must be followed completely. Either we hug pedoes or execute them on sight. Anything in between is going to do more harm than good.

Tougher punishment can only go to the point where the death penalty is punishment for everything--I do not feel that the 'next logical step' is tougher punishment, as it is no road to resolution of the issue. You say that the benefit of execution for child molestation and similar pedophilic acts comes in the fact that it will save time and money spent on investigations, trials, jail time, and counseling. Should not the goal of punishment of child molestation be to reduce the thing itself and not reduce the costs involved?
The absolute punishment of execution for child molestation is only an end to an individual case, not the whole of them. It will not, over time, solve the issue of child molestation.

As for the video game issue, I laughed a bit. I have no issue with keeping violent games out of the hands of kids, but I only wish that politicians wouldn't act as if those games are a cancer which is slowly invading the minds of all human beings. The argument that they should be kept out of the hands of children is fairly valid, but no group of game developers or publisher (that I know of) consciously tries to sell their games to children. If children are interested in those violent games, it is surely not because marketing has made them interested.

Jam it back in, in the dark.