It’s early days as it was only up yesterday, but the initial replies certainly seem to back up my theory, which is simply this: Most normal men want the death penalty for anyone who rapes little kids. And yet, the death penalty has been universally banned in Western countries except the USA and even then, the rules for it are from even remotely good.
Note that only slightly more than half of the respondents have children.
And a few added clarifying notes, which was interesting because it once again showed Avery important point, which was not so much that the punishment was to exact revenge, as much as it was to civilise and absolutely force a message of what raping a child would result in.
As one man put it:
Which clearly is a civilising statement, not one of sadistically enjoying the slow broiling of pedophiles.
At the other end of the spectrum was an equally reasonable statement:
To my way of thinking both men have valid points. And certainly doing that kind of work on a daily basis would likely have an effect on the executioner, certainly unless he had an uncommonly strong mind and deep faith.
I also suspect the second commenter is unlikely to be Catholic, since the reason for burning such people at the stake was to give them sufficient time to contemplate Hell eternally and thus hopefully have them truly repent before god and as such, in time, after rPurgatory, perhaps also be allowed to enter heaven.
One man went a step too far I think, because when you make an execution become entertainment, is when you allow the perverse to “take part” so to speak and in this respect I would definitely not agree, although I can understand the comment might be made at least partially in jest:
Anyway, the point is that the absolute overwhelming majority of men (more than 95%) would prescribe the death penalty for pedophiles. If you actually lived in a democracy, this would absolutely happen. But we do not, so it does not. The interesting thing is that over 50% of them would prefer the pedophile she burnt at the stake in the public square. Once again, denoting very clearly that the intent would be to very strongly ensure absolutely everyone knew what awaited the if they could not contain themselves.
So… where is the democracy then?
And if this is how a very serious topic gets handled, what do you think the health/justice shape of things on other matters is?
It is high time, we started to change the existing laws and make the new ones be far more representative of the will of the common people.
It may be optimistic to assume the majority of men who voted represent the majority of ‘men’ at large.
I specifically stated this was not the case and that my audience may be biased. What is the point of you pointing out what was already stated in the initial survey?
And in any event, biased or not the fact there were ZERO votes for anything less than 15 to life and that over 95% of men want the death penalty, regardless of how small you might thing the sample is, is certainly enough to make some basic inferences.
I was indeed referring to audience bias, not sample size. Sorry if redundant.
Biased as my readership may be, they are not overwhelmingly psychopaths or sadists. There may be more Catholics among them, which means actually more neurologically balanced people with a better grasp on reality than most, so I think it evens out quite nicely.