Is life in prison/the death penalty too harsh for rape?

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rehabilitation, never death.

No, it most certainly is not. I am for getting rid of prisons and turning them into reeducation through labor camps. This way, the people are still able to be freed if they are found not guilty (and given significant reparations as well) yet do not drain the properly behaved people's resources: Rather, the criminals are forced to do hard, but no cruel, labor throughout most of the day. And, sentences would not be based on time but on the amount of labor done (in a portfolio of various physical units), so the criminals would be encouraged to work very hard anyways to get out earlier. In addition, laziness and bad behavior would result in any combination of corporal punishment, a loss of privileges and, in extreme cases, an increase in the prisoner's sentence, while good behavior and doing more work than required in a day would be rewarded with special foods, more breaks and greater privileges. Finally, every week or so, intensive and didactic sessions based on reeducating the criminals in ethics, virtues and proper conduct.

In some situations where the crime is so horrible, such as sexual crimes, and for repeating serious offenses, I think the most rational choice would be to execute the criminal if the criminal is not seen as being capable of going through the reeducation through labor system. Not sadistically or vengefully but via shooting.

I don't like the death penalty. I like the idea of labor camps. Prisoners should be working hard to offset the cost of their upkeep.

There's a huge problem with making the penalty for rape the same as the penalty for murder -- it gives the rapist every incentive to kill the victim afterward. The penalty is no worse, and the likelihood of getting caught & convicted is a lot less because the star witness won't be around to testify.

No, mere death penalty, or life in prison, is not harsh enough. If one can be sure that the person indeed is a rapist, he or she should be tortured to death in the worst ways imaginable. He or she should be served a nice, tasty-looking meal made of his or her cut off genitals, be informed what it's made of, to add humiliation, and forced to eat it, then the rest of them would later be cut off in little pieces, while they all the time would be kept alive, by various means, by burning the wounds, and through other necessary procedures. The person would have to eat the pieces and skin that is cut off/skinned off of him or her, every day, as well, and when the person is starting to get numbed out from the torture, he or she should be pulled apart while still alive, or mangled - I guess you could be kind enough to let them choose. All this should be done on a remote "torture" island, as an example, and by robots, if possible, so no torturers get messed up from what they do (I'd gladly do it all, though), and so no one in society starts questioning the reasonability of it.

When done with them, you could use their corpses as bio fuel, in special power plants, as well, to be kind to the environment (that is much needed, nowadays, as we know).

Those who lie about a specific, real person having raped them should also be punished, though. Lifetime in forced labour, without any chance for release, may be a better solution for them, though. However, would they ever try to escape, they would be executed.

I take it you are not a humanist.

Well there's no doubt that rape causes a lot a trauma. It certainly can be bad enough to make you suicidal. But most people who are raped do not commit suicide. If they all did, the suicide rate would be vastly higher. Like a thousand times higher.