Reply to: A computer administrator has been jailed

[oracleslave]

Does that remove desire?

only if you have an addacocktome afterwards

[stackpole]

A hysterectomy would be a similar operation...

Does that remove desire?

[Moscow Mule]

Are you going to chop their bollocks off?

A hysterectomy would be a similar operation...

[NotAllThere]

I would have thought some kind of plug would be more in order.

[Diver]

Are you going to chop their bollocks off?

I have an apple corer too

[Churchill]

Yes, several

Are you going to chop their bollocks off?

[Diver]

You fancy having your bollox removed do you?

Here's a question, are there any convicted women paedophiles?

Yes, several

[Churchill]

How about castration for anyone found with this material? Would be a win win scenario.

You fancy having your bollox removed do you?

Here's a question, are there any convicted women paedophiles?

[Bagpuss]

There are other remedies than jail, some of which are more effective in preventing reoffending, and also cost the tax payer less. But they're not terribly popular with the voting public who think jail is the only punishment worthwhile, even though it is demonstrably not the most effective remedy in many cases.

Bring back the birch.

How about castration for anyone found with this material? Would be a win win scenario.

[Diver]

There are other remedies than jail, some of which are more effective in preventing reoffending, and also cost the tax payer less. But they're not terribly popular with the voting public who think jail is the only punishment worthwhile, even though it is demonstrably not the most effective remedy in many cases.

Bring back the birch.

Sharpens his Green river knife

[NotAllThere]

Therefore, if one of these people is not sent to jail it means the judge and the legal establishment do not believe it is wrong or immoral to act like this?...

There are other remedies than jail, some of which are more effective in preventing reoffending, and also cost the tax payer less. But they're not terribly popular with the voting public who think jail is the only punishment worthwhile, even though it is demonstrably not the most effective remedy in many cases.

Bring back the birch.

[EternalOptimist]

If you've still got those piccies of Sam Fox from the Sun when she was 16, then you're a sex criminal and deserve to be incinerated...

Or those old copies of that hardcore publication Mayfair....

And all those who just had a mental image of Sams jugs should protect the public morals and turn yourself in right now.

[OwlHoot]

.. All this talk of .. the possibility of some of these pictures being of 17 year olds, come on get real! ..

That was me and in fact my point, which it seems you missed, was that in theory *all* the guy's pictures could have been of 17 year olds. But I thought it was abundantly clear I didn't believe that possibility for a moment.

I was making what seemed a valid and serious point, which I'll repeat as your concentration must have strayed after three lines of "all this talk". The Government's over-zealousness and stupidity has probably made the problem of child porn worse.

[expat]

All this talk of thought crime <...>, come on get real!
Anyone with a massive collection of this stuff would love to participate in the scenes they are winking over and given half the chance they will.

So basically you are saying that you would punish someone for a crime other than the one they have been found guilty of, on the grounds that "given half a chance they will" commit that other crime too.

That is a very slippery slope.

[Lockhouse]

I do however think, and this is an aside to the central point, that having children is very good for the average human being in that it teaches us to love and understand beings that are weak and vulnerable.

I think what this proves is that you get all mushy when you talk about your kids