Would you support physical castration for sex offenders?

[orpheus]

Besides, it's a bit weird to think of different penalties for the same crime depending on comsequences for the victim. X steals $500 from me. Y steals $500 from my neighbor. Should Y face a lighter penalty than X because my neighbor is rich and the loss doesn't hurt him as much?

[mistermack]

Besides, it's a bit weird to think of different penalties for the same crime depending on comsequences for the victim. X steals $500 from me. Y steals $500 from my neighbor. Should Y face a lighter penalty than X because my neighbor is rich and the loss doesn't hurt him as much?

That's a weird question. Of course the penalties should depend on the consequences to the victim. And they very much do.

If you rob a house, and the owner doesn't resist, the penalty isn't as great as if you rob the house next door, the owner resists, has a heart attack and dies.
Or if you punch someone, and they hardly feel it, whereas someone else does the same thing, the victim has a brain haemorrage, and ends up in a wheelchair.
The effect on the victim is a huge factor in the seriousness of the crime.
That's just your bad luck, if you get the worse result. If you commit a crime, you take a chance on how it goes.

As far as sex offences go, I see no reason to treat men the same as women. Men are NOT the same as women, and sex is the biggest difference. Men and women have totally different attitudes to sex, on average.
This is borne out by the huge imbalance in things like sex abuse etc.
How many women go to prostitutes? Compared to men?

How many men get pregnant, and miss out on a career because they are single fathers?

When it comes to sex, men and women are virtually different species.
There is no reason why the law should maintain a fiction that they are the same. just for the sake of political correctness.

[Warren Dew]

Edited to add: In any case, this is sort of a tangent. I don't think you or anyone else denies that at least some women abuse boys - at least some of the time. It's not totally unheard of. So the issue at hand is: do we treat these women any differently from sexually abusive men? I don't think it's legal to do so. And I certainly don't think it's right. So this proposal of physical castration poses a huge legal problem of fairness.

There will also be a few cases of male offenders who are already castrated when they are convicted of their first offense.

[rainbow]

So this proposal of physical castration poses a huge legal problem of fairness.

Oh dear.
I think perhaps that only in some alternate reality there exists a legal system that is fair.

If it works, use it.