Yes, I don't think anyone would argue that the children need to be protected.
In the US, though, similar cases resulted in even more draconian penalties and surveillance for convicted abusers even if there was little risk they would re-offend, to the point that some law enforcement are speaking out and saying "hey, all these laws are making it HARDER for us to keep track of these people and making it MORE likely they will re-offend", which, in the current political climate that all abusers should be shot and burned, is really taking a risk.
It was just a good, here-and-now illustration of the mentality that would literally strip away the humanity from a specific group of people and how it gets justified.
As long as it's considered okay to strip away someone's humanity and right to exist for any reason, I think, we run the risk of another Holocaust because the real necessary ingredient is the mentality that some people don't deserve to live and the mental arrogance that lets us think we can decide that.
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Date: 2007-09-20 07:51 pm (UTC)In the US, though, similar cases resulted in even more draconian penalties and surveillance for convicted abusers even if there was little risk they would re-offend, to the point that some law enforcement are speaking out and saying "hey, all these laws are making it HARDER for us to keep track of these people and making it MORE likely they will re-offend", which, in the current political climate that all abusers should be shot and burned, is really taking a risk.
It was just a good, here-and-now illustration of the mentality that would literally strip away the humanity from a specific group of people and how it gets justified.
As long as it's considered okay to strip away someone's humanity and right to exist for any reason, I think, we run the risk of another Holocaust because the real necessary ingredient is the mentality that some people don't deserve to live and the mental arrogance that lets us think we can decide that.