Taking it Easy

Taking it easy tonight. Worn out. Returned all the cats. No cat calls this weekend. Need a break.

Well anyhow. There are certain blogs I check on occasion and I checked one two days ago. The blog post concerned chemical castration for twice offending rapists and child molestors. The blogger, who is liberal, was against it.

I don't know why some liberals seem soft on crime and seem to lack empathy for victims of crime, siding with, even appearing to empathisize with the criminal, who may have grossly harmed another life. I don't understand this at all.

I don't believe in locking up drug addicts unless they turn to crime, stealing from people and hurting other people or children. Some people would call that soft. But when it comes to rape and child molestation, I am hard core, knowing what such crimes did to my life and do to the lives of any victim of such crime. There is no excuse for rape or molesting a child. They take away the life of that person, destroy it.

People who sympathize with the rapist, that's sick. I can understand the squeemishness of men about chemical castration. As a victim of molestation and one rape, I'm all for it.

I remember a story in the paper about an OSU music professor. He'd led a long life of abusing young girls, from school to school, to university to university. He was tracked down finally by a persistent caseworker and charged. He never denied what he did all his life to so many girls. At his sentencing, dozens of people, many from Corvallis and OSU, testified glowingly about his character, how wonderful he was. Not one person stood up for the victims, including his latest, a little girl.

Do you know what that kind of behavior does to a little girl, already damaged from the abuse of an adult she should have been able to trust? It destroys her, that's what it does.

That's why I hate it when people defend rapists and child molestors or claim they should get light sentences or easy punishment, or that their lives should not be destroyed by the punishment.

When you do that, even though you probably don't mean to, you put down the women and girls who have been raped and molested, as nothing. Whether you know it or not, that is what you do because that is what happens to children who are raped or molested---they no longer feel worthy or valued.

It is the "gift that keeps giving", as it is called, sarcastically, when a child is abused.

It isn't as simple as he asked me, when I commented on his post, that a repeat offender rapist or molestor destroys lives. He then asked, 'So why should the state then destroy his life?"

To stop him, that's why, to prevent more ravaged lives.

Why in the world should we become such a society that shoots itself in the foot, by not defending children and by allowing people among us who destroy the lives of others? This is not only cruel to victims, but it's stupid. It's expensive, too, when the damage done by such criminals produces ongoing costs.

Abused children sometimes go on to abuse others or have damaged self-esteem. With damaged self-esteem, men or women often attach to abusers and the deadly cycle continues, with further generations. That's ridiculous. If a person cannot control themselves, which is evident if a repeat offender, then they need their behavior stopped, to halt more damage to others and to society.