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Cardinal punishment is a term, that I have invented, for a type of punishment that I believe should be issued to rapists. To describe the punishment, it involves restraining the rapist in a room where a volunteer, that I shall dub the "deliverer", sexually penetrates the rapist against their will.
Reasons why I believe cardinal punishment should be institutionalized:
-To deliver justice. What more appropiate form of justice is there than to make the punishment fit the crime?
-To help bring relief to victims of rape. Rape victims are traumatized from the event, and their families also suffer as a result. Sentencing rapists to cardinal punishment can help victims heal.
-It would be a great crime deterrent. People would be more reluctant to rape if there's a possibility of facing cardinal punishment.
-If rapists are sentenced to cardinal punishment, their time in prison could be reduced. This would help with the issue of overcrowed prisons as well as the costs of maintaining those prisons.
-It would deter the rapist from raping again. Eventually, rapists are given parole. Even worse, they can escape prison before their time is served. But by teaching them a lesson with cardinal punishment, they would be unlikely to rape again (compared to if they were only given a prison sentence).
Discuss.
- What makes raping a rapist just? I happen to think that there is a better, and more just, way to have a punishment fit the crime. What you have described is something more like revenge, which the law should not be in the business of.
- I think therapy is much better at helping victims and their families get over their pain.
- I question its capacity to deter crime. Lord knows states with the death penalty dont have much lower crime rates, so I question how well this rape policy would work.
- I dont think it would help overcrowding much, as the higher numbers have more to do with minor offenses than serious stuff like rape.
- Eh, or you make them more likely to offend as they try to grapple with the fact that they were raped. Works the same way as victims of bullying sometimes becoming bullies.
Also, I dont think you invented the term 'cardinal punishment' so much as slapped two existing words together.