NameIsRobertPaulson said:
My answer would likely get me banned and possibly arrested. In short: a lot of acid, cheese graters, bicycle pumps, and only after the rapist has suffered more than every human combined will I permit him to kill himself with a rusty razor.
Speak how it has no place in a civil society, people like that have no place there either. Violence is an effective deterrent. If others know what will happen if they are caught, they will be MUCH less likely to do it.
"Shoot them if they break the law. In fact, shoot one now, so that they get the message loud and clear."
The British Parliament back in the 18th Century had a similar ethos, in response to rising crime rates, particularly of crimes that were often associated with violence, such as smuggling and highway robbery. There reaction to this was known as The Bloody Code, which essentially issued the death penalty for pretty much everything there was a law against at the time, with the aim of scaring the populace into line.
It didn't work.
Violent criminals were still able to operate with impunity, because even though being caught meant the hangman's noose, there was little chance of them being caught in the first place and half of them were starving anyway. Things actually got better for criminals, because now the public was so disgusted by The Bloody Code that innocent bystanders would now go out of their way to protect the lawbreakers from the authorities. On the occasions when they were caught, the public hangings only served as an attraction for pick-pockets and other petty criminals, flouting the law right in front of the grizzly example that was supposed to be being set for them.
While not all the conditions that contributed to the abject failure of The Bloody Code to deter crime are applicable here, it is only one of many examples throughout history that serve to prove what you say is total rubbish. Brutal punishments do not act as a deterrent, certainly not on their own. The sort of conditions a rapist can expect to receive inside the prison systems of most nations is already rather barbaric, and yet rape is still widespread. Why? Because so many cases of rape go unreported, and even then so many of those that are don't result in a conviction. The small chance of actually having to face any kind of punishment makes it a risk worth taking for the potential rapist, no matter how painful or undignified the punishment in question might be.
Better education on the nuances of consent during are formative years, a better and more widely understood set of laws determining what is and isn't rape, and a police force that reaches out to potential victims, and is better equipped to catch and convict the guilty parities. These are the things we need to stop rapists, before we even get to discussing what punishment they should receive. Even then, we shouldn't on principle stoop to barbarism.
