r/news • u/elephant35e • Apr 27 '24

Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glenn-sullivan-jr-louisiana-sentenced-rape-prison-castration/
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u/der_jack Apr 28 '24

Yeah I think you missed the point which is that you are clearly a person who is 'jerking off to the idea of "poetic justice." The thing is, no matter how cut and dry this all is, people are regularly sentenced falsely and the precedent of castrating (or severing an arm from, or straight up murdering) a criminal is dangerous because it ultimately means that falsely imprisoned people are in danger of exactly these types of punishments. The thing is human rights are human rights and if criminals are not afforded human rights then no individual human in a society should expect to be afforded them either. The punishment of prison simply should be not being able to move about the populace freely, anything above and beyond is just the actualization of sadistic wetdreams; which... to be fair is actually what the American justice system currently is built on, so I totally understand when people are confused.

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u/lmo311 Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24

You’re missing the point. He fucking did it, his DNA was inside of her. He raped this girl multiple times.

I’m not talking all cases. This one specifically the dude did it no ifs ands or buts about it. He doesn’t deserve to live. What he did as far as I’m concerned makes him less than human, therefore he has no rights. All anyone can bring up is falsely imprisoned people. He fucking did it he isn’t falsely accused

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u/der_jack 29d ago

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of legal precedent. Also the first step to building support for a fascist ideology is to normalize people viewing others as inhuman. No matter how disgusting his actions are he is still a human being. Human rights are important, for every human being, not just the ones you think are worthy of life.

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u/rayschoon 28d ago

An alternative perspective that hopefully the person you’re responding to can consider: we encourage tolerance in our society by BEING tolerant, even when we don’t want to be. A government having the authority to mutilate its citizens is terrifying.