Perverted Justice: Sex offender laws represent the triumph of outrage over reason

sixstringer420 · 2011-11-11T18:37:50+00:00

To most Americans, I fear, this prospect is not nearly as scary as the possibility that a sex offender lives down the street.

That's it exactly, isn't it? I have a son, and I worry far more that he will become a victim of our justice system than become a victim of a sexual predator. It's distressing to think that many of the ill-advised, back-seat fumblings of my youth could now be considered crimes.

MikeFromBC · 2011-11-11T18:17:06+00:00

People will let the government pass anything when, "ItZ 4 teH ChildrENZ."

2011-11-11T21:32:15+00:00

You are now on a registry for reading this. SHAAAAME!!!!!

redsteakraw · 2011-11-12T17:37:49+00:00

The way I see it is this child porn laws need to be re-evaluated due to the harmful legal consequences on the youths themselves. First off possession of child porn in itself should not be a crime however purchasing / producing it(not including self production) should be the crime. If you are under-age and you take pictures of yourself and send it to your girlfriend or vice versa there is no victim thus there no reason it should be illegal in itself. When there is a victim and you are actively funding or producing said content then that is a problem and should be illegal. So basically if it is to be prosecuted a victim must be presented and evidence that said person contributed to the victimization.

Another problem is that nudity != sexuality putting a person that moons or strieks in the sex offender registry is a travesty. You should have to show an active "sexual" advancement not just nudity. Thus you should also be able to walk around naked in your house without any fears of being put on the list.

One of the biggist problems I see is putting minors on the sex offenders list for having sex with other minors. WTF, you protect the kids by stigmatising the kids for life? That makes a lot of sense /sarcasm. Really there are no victims in that case yet people are actually being victimized by the laws that were put into place to protect them. I don't know why this hasn't been fixed.

Lastly age of consent laws should also have age boundaries, for example if you are within 4 years of age or under the age of consent it is legal. 4 years is reasonable because the average high school has a 4 grades with student around a maximum of 4 years apart. It seems unreasonable the have a bunch of kids all going through puberty with hormones racing to not be able to act on it consensually with their peers.

Now if you actually victimized people then yes there should be repercussions but the current legal situation harms innocent people. This is horribly the case that it victimizes the very people it was put into place to protect. But most of these problems could be avoided if there was a law that made it illegal to prosecute anyone for which a victim could not be found. But then prostitution, gambling and drugs would be legal and the government doesn't like people having fun.

Lawtonfogle · 2011-11-12T03:48:15+00:00

"Elliot’s crime: When he was 19, he had sex with his girlfriend, who was three weeks shy of 16, the age of consent in Maine."

Doesn't matter, he still broke the law.... little Megan didn't. I'm not saying pedophiles deserve to die, but if it's between them and children then there's no way i'm ever going to defend someone who has commited a sex crime.

This is what men's rights is about? Defending sex offenders over innocent children?

Title	Perverted Justice: Sex offender laws represent the triumph of outrage over reason
Author	JeremiahMRA
Upvotes	60
Comments	14
Date	November 11, 2011 6:10 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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