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>People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Ridiculous. Maybe we should pr

>People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. Ridiculous. Maybe we should prosecute people who talk about overthrowing the government on twitter with treason - they're threats! And safety is important! These threats on the internet aren't acceptable, but neither is your reaction to them. There is a vast difference between threatening someone and actually doing something, and the way our criminal justice system treats sexual crimes borders on cruel and unusual. You're saying that someone should have the rest of their life ruined because they made a lewd threat on the internet? We've all heard the story of the kid who went streaking on a dare but happened to be near a playground so now he's labeled a sexual predator for the rest of his life. Do you really think that is a good response to this kind of thing? >As a father myself, this kind of behaviour makes me sick and I cannot understand people who feel they need to defend these kinds of sick comments. Punishing someone won't ease the anxiety you feel about the safety of your kids; there will always be something else waiting to ruin their innocence. You probably confuse people saying your reaction to these comments is extreme with people defending the comments. Regardless, you want to label someone a sexual predator so that you can feel better about the fact that you're scared for your kids. That is disgusting and scarier to me than anonymous threats to my family on the internet.

intortus 12y ago
I think you're engaging in the common fallacy of dismissing things that happen on the internet as "not real." It's long past time we, as a society, grew out of such childish thinking.
- gk1 12y ago
  As parent pointed out, these things occur in "real life" and are no less extreme. Streaking, being underage and sexting, having consensual relationships with someone slightly younger but under the age of consent, etc.
je_bailey 12y ago
You read his statement different then I did. He's not saying that people who makes these statements be labelled as sex offenders. He's saying that people who make these statements be brought to task. If a law has been violated, then charged, and if the court determines there is reason to label them as a sex offender, then so be it.
- gk1 12y ago
  From grandparent: > ...labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. I understand you're pointing out the fact that grandparent said "if convicted," but parent's point is that _even if convicted_, being put on a registry for the rest of your life is extreme.
  - junto 12y ago
    Nice misquote. ..and if convicted.. The case in point relates to harassment and threats of rape here. What part of that isn't illegal exactly?
chris_wot 12y ago
Streaking near a playground without knowing of it and threatening to rape someone's daughter are completely different things. Telling anyone that they want their daughter to bleed into their underwear because you raped them is sickening, intimidating and frankly sexual violence. Since when did this become acceptable?
- Dylan16807 12y ago
  Hold your horses. There are many crimes that don't put people on a life-ruining sexual predator list. Murder for example. That doesn't make them 'acceptable'. I don't think this crime should go on that special list. I think a reasonable maximum for this crime is a few months in prison, similar to misdemeanor battery.
  - chris_wot 12y ago
    I don't think the register is justifiable at all, to be honest. We don't have it where I live (Australia) and we don't have higher levels of sexual assault than the U.S. (our rates are still too high). If that was the point you were making, I apologise as I misunderstood you.
    - Dylan16807 12y ago
      I wasn't making that point in this specific post, but I agree. It's a 'tough on crime' measure that doesn't actually help things.
      - chris_wot 12y ago
        "Tough on crime" almost never works. Appreciate your comments :-)
- mindslight 12y ago
  It's not acceptable. This doesn't mean it needs to be illegal. Schilling took a stand and it seems like he got decent justice as it is. Why the knee jerk reaction that more laws must be needed?
eveningcoffee 12y ago
No, we should not live in the world where any kind of rape threat is tolerable. Period. This, or threat of murder or serious injury should be not acceptable in any form.
junto 12y ago
The examples include threats of rape against his underage daughter. How on earth do people here find that acceptable? Would it be acceptable if she was 16, 15, 12..? It wouldn't be acceptable if she was 30 or 90.

intortus 12y ago

I think you're engaging in the common fallacy of dismissing things that happen on the internet as "not real." It's long past time we, as a society, grew out of such childish thinking.

gk1 12y ago
As parent pointed out, these things occur in "real life" and are no less extreme. Streaking, being underage and sexting, having consensual relationships with someone slightly younger but under the age of consent, etc.

je_bailey 12y ago

You read his statement different then I did. He's not saying that people who makes these statements be labelled as sex offenders. He's saying that people who make these statements be brought to task. If a law has been violated, then charged, and if the court determines there is reason to label them as a sex offender, then so be it.

gk1 12y ago
From grandparent: > ...labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register. I understand you're pointing out the fact that grandparent said "if convicted," but parent's point is that _even if convicted_, being put on a registry for the rest of your life is extreme.
- junto 12y ago
  Nice misquote. ..and if convicted.. The case in point relates to harassment and threats of rape here. What part of that isn't illegal exactly?

chris_wot 12y ago

Streaking near a playground without knowing of it and threatening to rape someone's daughter are completely different things. Telling anyone that they want their daughter to bleed into their underwear because you raped them is sickening, intimidating and frankly sexual violence. Since when did this become acceptable?

Dylan16807 12y ago
Hold your horses. There are many crimes that don't put people on a life-ruining sexual predator list. Murder for example. That doesn't make them 'acceptable'. I don't think this crime should go on that special list. I think a reasonable maximum for this crime is a few months in prison, similar to misdemeanor battery.
- chris_wot 12y ago
  I don't think the register is justifiable at all, to be honest. We don't have it where I live (Australia) and we don't have higher levels of sexual assault than the U.S. (our rates are still too high). If that was the point you were making, I apologise as I misunderstood you.
  - Dylan16807 12y ago
    I wasn't making that point in this specific post, but I agree. It's a 'tough on crime' measure that doesn't actually help things.
    - chris_wot 12y ago
      "Tough on crime" almost never works. Appreciate your comments :-)
mindslight 12y ago
It's not acceptable. This doesn't mean it needs to be illegal. Schilling took a stand and it seems like he got decent justice as it is. Why the knee jerk reaction that more laws must be needed?

eveningcoffee 12y ago

No, we should not live in the world where any kind of rape threat is tolerable. Period. This, or threat of murder or serious injury should be not acceptable in any form.

junto 12y ago

The examples include threats of rape against his underage daughter. How on earth do people here find that acceptable? Would it be acceptable if she was 16, 15, 12..? It wouldn't be acceptable if she was 30 or 90.