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"TBH I don't get why public urination deserves more than a ticket as deterrence. Listing someone as a convicted sex offender is quite frankly absurd for such a
by betterunix 13y ago
"TBH I don't get why public urination deserves more than a ticket as deterrence. Listing someone as a convicted sex offender is quite frankly absurd for such a benign infraction."
Sex offender registration is absurd regardless of the crime. The entire concept was a knee-jerk reaction to a rare crime, and now we have to deal with a class of outcasts who have trouble finding a place to live:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Tuttle_Causeway_sex_offender_colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Tuttle_Causeway_sex_offe...
- pessimizer 13y agoThe Overton window has passed on that one. Now, no one remembers that sex offender laws were controversial when first instituted, and were a big difference from anything that had happened before. Of course sex is dirty, and people who commit sex crimes should be permanently stained while murderers live freely - the only debate is when people get that stain for something that merely involved nudity, or teenagers get it for molesting themselves. Sad, really. The Bill of Rights was the only thing protecting us from the wolves, and each amendment has been reduced by the post-Warren courts into a loose guideline or an unenforceable platitude.