First of all, insinuating that children being raped isn't a problem to me is ridiculous and purposfully inflammatory and wrong. I obviously found it an issue, so chill the fuck out at attack me for what I'm REALLY saying.

On that vein perhaps i did not express myself clearly enough (so full of Teh Rage as I was) so let me clarify. I am not in the least bit against social reform. I Like social reform. It's a very good and necessary thing. I am, however, a realist, and as a realist i understand that social reform is difficult, arduous, expensive and takes a LOT of time. And in that time, we still have children being abused.

Now, I would be offended by your insinuation that all I care about is violence and revenge and making myself feel better for the atrocities that happen, but since you so obviously misinterpereted everything i said, I'll let it slide. What this man did? It was horrible in ways i don't even want to think about. And yes, as a society, things need to be done so that this never happens again. And as an individual this man needs to pay for what he has done in a way that measures up for his crime. Is that not, after all, justice? And far from inspiration, harsh crimes are a deterrent for criminals, and killing children is not a good way to wash ones hands of a situation. Everyone notices a missing child. Everyone notices a dead child. Not many notice a child that is small and frightened and too terrified to speak.

Harsh punishments are a deterrent, that's why murderers get harsher punishments than scam artists. Prevention is better than correction. Naive idealism gets jack shit done so think about what you say before you poke the angry bear