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Hypocrites! A somewhat meandering rant
Feb. 20th, 2017 06:57 pmThis rant brought to you by the absurdity of people defending neo-Nazi Milo Yiannopoulos' right to freely speak his violent hate speech and only turning against him when he started advocating for his right to diddle kids:
I will never be able to understand how people can be blase about people advocating the mass extermination of entire races/ethnicities/classes of people, and then treat pedophilia like it’s the worst thing in the fucking world. Like, yes, rape is evil and the rape of children is even more evil, but I don’t understand why it’s considered more evil than the deliberate extermination of human lives because of their race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, or what have you. Hell, I don’t even understand why it’s considered more evil than pre-meditated murder. (Because clearly rape is more heinous than heat-of-the-moment murder, since rape requires deliberate intent whereas murders that are crimes of passion do not.) Yes, rape is heinous and rape of a child is even worse, but honestly it’s not as heinous as deliberately and with premeditation ending a human life against their will. And even if they were somehow equal, genocide is still always going to be a million times worse, and yet people act like the reverse is true.
Not only that, but all sexual crimes against minors are treated as the same level of heinousness, in the eyes of the law. Which on the surface makes sense, but if you think about it, that means crimes like someone getting their jollies by waggling their dick at a 17 year old, or 18-year-olds having consensual sex with 17-year-olds are considered crimes on par with brutally raping a toddler, in the eyes of the law and get the same punishment of being on the sex offender registry, and that’s just bloody ridiculous.
While we’re at it, the sex offender registry is kind of a ridiculous idea, too. There’s no registry for people who have murdered people, even when it was premeditated. They serve their time, they get out, they maybe have to deal with being recognized, they probably have a hard time getting jobs because of being convicts, but they can live anywhere without restriction, and they don’t have to inform anyone of their crimes except potential employers. And why not? Why isn’t there a murderer registry?
I’m not advocating for a murderer registry, actually. And here’s why: because repeat murderers tend to go to prison with longer sentences, because society recognizes that they are too dangerous to remain free. Society doesn’t recognize the same thing of repeat sex offenders. And to a degree, this is understandable, because not all sex offenses or sex offenders are equal. Penis-wagglers are more annoying than anything else, for instance, while genuine rapists - especially the violent ones - are a legitimate threat and should be put away for a long time.
But if you think the sex offender registry is in any way a deterrent or helping people to be safe, you’re wrong. The SRO is actually counter-productive, because it ends up giving these people nowhere to live, and they end up homeless and thus unable to be tracked, or it drives them to reoffend. This is caused by one of two things: 1. If one is being treated like a monster just for existing, might as well prove them right. or 2. The stress caused by being unable to find housing or work due to their crime (which in many cases is the annoying but basically harmless penis-waggling, or any of a number of ridiculous situations like “I was just drunk and taking a piss, and somebody saw my wang and called the cops” or again, an 18-year-old and his or her 17-year-old partner bang, get caught, and the elder of the two gets their life ruined forever because the law is more concerned with making things nice and orderly than it is with actual common sense or justice. … um, went off on a tangent a bit but 2) the stress of that might cause them to reoffend or do some other crime because being in prison ends up being less stressful than dealing with the stupid SRO.
And honestly, if a crime is serious enough that you genuinely believe putting them on a registry after they’re released from prison is necessary, then WHY THE HELL DID YOU RELEASE THEM FROM PRISON IN THE FIRST PLACE, DUMBASS?
I will never be able to understand how people can be blase about people advocating the mass extermination of entire races/ethnicities/classes of people, and then treat pedophilia like it’s the worst thing in the fucking world. Like, yes, rape is evil and the rape of children is even more evil, but I don’t understand why it’s considered more evil than the deliberate extermination of human lives because of their race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, or what have you. Hell, I don’t even understand why it’s considered more evil than pre-meditated murder. (Because clearly rape is more heinous than heat-of-the-moment murder, since rape requires deliberate intent whereas murders that are crimes of passion do not.) Yes, rape is heinous and rape of a child is even worse, but honestly it’s not as heinous as deliberately and with premeditation ending a human life against their will. And even if they were somehow equal, genocide is still always going to be a million times worse, and yet people act like the reverse is true.
Not only that, but all sexual crimes against minors are treated as the same level of heinousness, in the eyes of the law. Which on the surface makes sense, but if you think about it, that means crimes like someone getting their jollies by waggling their dick at a 17 year old, or 18-year-olds having consensual sex with 17-year-olds are considered crimes on par with brutally raping a toddler, in the eyes of the law and get the same punishment of being on the sex offender registry, and that’s just bloody ridiculous.
While we’re at it, the sex offender registry is kind of a ridiculous idea, too. There’s no registry for people who have murdered people, even when it was premeditated. They serve their time, they get out, they maybe have to deal with being recognized, they probably have a hard time getting jobs because of being convicts, but they can live anywhere without restriction, and they don’t have to inform anyone of their crimes except potential employers. And why not? Why isn’t there a murderer registry?
I’m not advocating for a murderer registry, actually. And here’s why: because repeat murderers tend to go to prison with longer sentences, because society recognizes that they are too dangerous to remain free. Society doesn’t recognize the same thing of repeat sex offenders. And to a degree, this is understandable, because not all sex offenses or sex offenders are equal. Penis-wagglers are more annoying than anything else, for instance, while genuine rapists - especially the violent ones - are a legitimate threat and should be put away for a long time.
But if you think the sex offender registry is in any way a deterrent or helping people to be safe, you’re wrong. The SRO is actually counter-productive, because it ends up giving these people nowhere to live, and they end up homeless and thus unable to be tracked, or it drives them to reoffend. This is caused by one of two things: 1. If one is being treated like a monster just for existing, might as well prove them right. or 2. The stress caused by being unable to find housing or work due to their crime (which in many cases is the annoying but basically harmless penis-waggling, or any of a number of ridiculous situations like “I was just drunk and taking a piss, and somebody saw my wang and called the cops” or again, an 18-year-old and his or her 17-year-old partner bang, get caught, and the elder of the two gets their life ruined forever because the law is more concerned with making things nice and orderly than it is with actual common sense or justice. … um, went off on a tangent a bit but 2) the stress of that might cause them to reoffend or do some other crime because being in prison ends up being less stressful than dealing with the stupid SRO.
And honestly, if a crime is serious enough that you genuinely believe putting them on a registry after they’re released from prison is necessary, then WHY THE HELL DID YOU RELEASE THEM FROM PRISON IN THE FIRST PLACE, DUMBASS?