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Originally Posted by Alexander the Grape
I completely disagree with you. I hate rape and sex crimes as much as anyone else, but I don't believe any crime should be punishable by death. And here in the United States people have rights even if they are/were criminals. I hope to God it stays that way. Our rights are under attack enough as it is.
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I've just spent the last two months working in a cambodian orphanage. Quite a few of my kids were rescued from brothels after being sold as sex slaves. The youngest of these is a nine year old girl. She had been working as a prostitute for over a year by the time she was rescued. Somehow she managed to escape contracting an STD, but it's impossible not to see how much it's damaged her. I don't think you'd be preaching about rights being infringed if you'd met one of these kids. Child rapists anywhere in the world aren't human to be capable of that much evil. Every human being deserves the rights we enjoy in the western world, but anyone who would harm these kids as much as they have don't deserve to live.
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