(November 13, 2014 at 10:23 pm)Lao Shizi Wrote: In many states in the US, you can kill someone and be out in 7-10 years. I hardly think rape is more serious than actually killing someone.
I can think of some extreme cases when murder is morally justifiable. I can think of other more common cases where murder might not be morally justifiable but a crime done in the heat of the moment and therefore not by someone who's necessarily sociopathic.
I can't think of any condition where rape is either morally justifiable or considered a less severe crime because of a heat-of-the-moment circumstance. For this reason, I consider rapists inherently sociopathic and dangerous to society where a murderer might not be.
My recommendation for mandatory lengthy sentences (20+ years) is to protect society. Someone so sociopathic as to commit rape is a menace to that needs to be put away for at least the entirety of their youth. Someone so demented as to rape a child is so incurably sociopathic as to preclude any reasonable hope of rehabilitation and therefore that person needs to be locked away for the rest of their lives.
As for murder, it depends on the case, motive and the circumstances.
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