Punishments should range from probation to life imprisonment. If more serious crimes were committed in conjunction with sexual crimes then the death penalty could be appropriate.
So you would let such a criminal walk the streets?
So you would run the risk of such a criminal breaking out of prison, and force me and everyone else to pay for his incarceration for the rest of his life, keeping him fed, clothed, medicated, educated, entertained, legally represented, cool in summer and warm in winter?
Have you ever considered what God says the punishment should be?
I think you misunderstand.
I understand you just fine, marke!
Hence why I asked you those follow up questions, because I'm not entirely sure that you understand just what it was you were actually saying!
You said, when I asked you to tell us what the punishment should be for sexual crimes, particularly with regards to the crimes you mentioned in post #630, that such criminals should suffer punishments ranging from probation to life imprisonment.
Probation means "the release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision"
Life imprisonment means that the offender will be locked away like an animal, keeping him fed, clothed, medicated, educated, entertained, legally represented, cool in summer and warm in winter, and people like you and me are forced to pay for ALL of it!
Do you not see the problem with EITHER of those?
Again, I ask, Do you REALLY want such people walking the streets, "out on probation"?
How is that a punishment at all?
On construction jobs, if some uncivilized worker takes a leak behind the building and someone sees him that bum can be arrested and charged with a sex crime.
No, that's not a "sex crime" at all. It's just public indecency, which I bet you have no idea what the punishment should be for such crimes... Not what it is. What it SHOULD be.
There are varying degrees of offenses for sex crimes just as there are varying degrees of other crimes. Not all those who commit a sex crime should be jailed for dozens of years or, worse, executed.
You keep saying "it shouldn't be this," or, "it shouldn't be that."
Again, I ask, Have you considered what GOD says the punishments should be for certain crimes? Because as far as I can tell, you have not.
It's one thing to not even know what God says about a matter.
It's quite another to say "yes, I know what God says in His word about such things, but I think it should be something else now."
So which is it, marke?