How many lives is that. I asked earlier if someone knew how many registered sex offenders there were in TO, and he never got back to me. your surely are pulling those numbers out of your hat. Hanging the pedos won't decrease the number of victims, just like executing murderers didn't lessen the number of murders.
Apparently hanging an innocent man is okay with you. There are many ways of dealing with child abuse and it starts with taking away the shame of being a victim.
As long as you are willing to keep an open mind, then lets discuss. This is not just to blackrock, anyone else feel free to jump in only if you have something intelligent to add.
As I said in my earlier post, I don't know what those numbers are. Even if someone pulls up some numbers, you would have to really did down deep to get a realistic picture of the
potential destruction caused by repeat offenders or maybe not caused by repeat offenders. If I was a PHD student or worked in some government organization or knew of a way to get funding to conduct the research, I would gladly do it. In the meantime, we have to rely on what we have to work with.
You seem to misunderstand my 1 vs 100 figure. It was not pulled out of a hat, it was a starting point to ask you the question of what would it take to convince you of the damage
that is being done to innocent people vs. sentencing an innocent person to death. So if I said to you that I could prove (within certain error margins), that for every 1 person
who is wrongly sentenced to death, you could save 100 children from being abused, would you find that acceptable? Would that number be 1 (death penalty) vs. 2, 1 vs. 5, 1 vs. 10.
I hope that none of you have family members who have been abused or have been abused yourself (but if you have, please feel free to share your stories), but for Blackrock,
I ask you to really try to think of one of those victims (1death penalty vs. 100 victims) not as a nameless, faceless face in a crowd. Think of them as the child in your family, or your friends family etc...
Finally, why does everyone these days seem to take for granted the fact that we live in a society does not just mean paying taxes. There are too many assholes out there
who seem to think along the lines of "I kill what I eat, i don't rely on anyone else to feed my family, I go out and work my ass off to provide for them, and everyone else should do the same. If you can't then it's your fault". I agree with these statements to a certain degree, but not the complete implication of it. To take the "I kill what i eat" analogy,
in a society, you do kill what you eat, but the reality is that "society" has rounded up the game that you are killing and put them in a pen. All you have to do is
start shooting, and you will eventually hit something. Cows and chickens do not shoot back.
Take another example. Some people will say, "I pay my taxes, I have a right to drive wherever I want". The reality is that if you drove on the road that you paid for
with your taxes, you would probably drive a few car lenghts before you run out of road.
Everyday in our society decisions are made that affect peoples lives. Take the recent example of the woman who is fighting with OHIP for cancer drugs to extend her life.
Why is a person who is convicted of serious crime given more status than our everyday person?
Living in a society we all have a responsibility to each other, and there might be some costs involved in that membership.