My boyfriend also believes child rapists and molesters should be put do death. What if there was castration? Take off their balls and they won’t hurt another child but unfortunately it’s seen as a cruel and unusual punishment. But it’s better than having them going out and hurting children and if they are asexual, they won’t hurt children. But here is the problem, what if they were innocent? Men have been accused of molesting a child.
So it made me reconsider about it.
I think that castration would be a just punishment for someone who rapes someone else, especially if a child is the victim and his guilt is absolutely certain, but the fact that it would likely be done to some innocent men as well makes me cringe. It would be extremely unjust to do something like castrating or executing an innocent person.
The whole question is whether this is about punishment,
or something else. I don't believe in punishment, but could
see the argument there. As to deterrence, people have committed
acts of sexual violence, after castration. Indeed, some can even get
an erection, after a physical one (I don't know about chemical).