When we are deciding who's rights to infringe outside of prison to prevent future crimes, it is absolutely pertinent to compare the average citizen to the ex-co

When we are deciding who's rights to infringe outside of prison to prevent future crimes, it is absolutely pertinent to compare the average citizen to the ex-con, in addition to many other factors like the severity of the future crime. This is especially true because the author isn't arguing that we should be making other ex-cons register (inviting the comparison between the recitivism of sexual ex-cons and non-sexual ex-cons), he's arguing that we shouldn't make sexual ex-cons register because it's ineffective and cruel. The other types of criminals are basically orthogonal to this argument.