Rapists

[Jenny A]

No, the punishment need not be so harsh just to satisfy one's lust for revenge or a misguided sense of justice. Life sentence is harsh enough and keeps them away from people they would pose a continuous threat to.

Resorting to severe measures such as castration (or death penalty) is not going to undo what they did to their victims, and all this does is continue to encourage a sense of barbarity that we (as civilized people) should've gone away with a long time ago.

You could say forcing someone in a prison for life is barbaric, there is no non barbaric civilized solution to the situation, you can't have a nice evening of chatting with the rapist at his house over tea and biscuits to come to a workable solution.

Whatever the solution is it's going to be barbaric.

I think in extreme situations the best barbaric punishment would be the death penalty.

Rape is more than unpleasant, but it's not a "fate worse than death." I know. It shouldn't without more. . . torture, kidnapping, incest, etc. be either a life time prison sentence or a death penalty offence. The problem is that the recidivism rate on rape is so high. I like chemical castration until the rapists testosterone rates drop with age.