Originally posted by AccessDenied
reply to post by pjslug

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Good Lord, tell me that is not true.
All I could find on wiki was this.
Iran: 15 for males, 13 for females.[56] (girls under 13 and boys under 15 may get married with their guardian consent and court ruling that its in their interest)


[edit on 16-10-2007 by AccessDenied]

Originally posted by SoFunkyMe
reply to post by greeneyedleo

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i dont agree what he did. but everyone should be treated equally like a multi billion air is just the same to me as a 10 yr old african kid that has only bones to a rapist or pedofiler we should treat each person the same and u will get through life easy u comepare and say u should die because what u did is just the lowest thing its just wrong helping each other for mistakes fix the mistake do alot to fix things is better.

u guys probely dont agree but we all have our ways of life and how we think of it isent ats about thoughts and yeh

Originally posted by aava
reply to post by 27jd

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That's the thing, it probably won't stop this sort of thing from happening. Since the beginning of time there have been those who have done these sorts of things. Whatever society, whatever era, there are those outcasts. So what makes you so sure torture/execution would work here? Obviously the death penalty does not stop people from murdering one another.

Anger from parents and those who imagine their own being taken advantage of by this man is understood. But in what way does the perpetrators destruction fix the problem? What, if anything, can be done to prevent such acts? I do not believe what most are calling for would stop another pedophile from doing such things.

Yeah, rehabilitation has so far been proven a load of bs. I am not advocating that. I want to question the groupthink that always happens in these sort of social issue threads. How do we, as people living in a civil society, deal with those that show a depravity for that which we consider dear. Would torture make you feel "good"?

As other posters alluded to, there must be something that those calling for extreme responses look for in their solutions, even if they are futile in preventing future problems.

I expect a fair amount of criticism from our resident torture advocates, but I hope the fire is directed towards my arguments and questions, not to myself.