[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

This is some of the logic behind giving lighter sentences for any crime that didn't end in someone's death... if you make the punishment for the crime as severe as the punishment for murder, then you MASSIVELY increase the risk that someone committing an assault will end it with killing and hiding the victim, because from their perspective there's no reason not to and they're far less likely to be caught if there's no live victim to report the crime.

I do think the risk needs to be taken when it's Paedophilia imo.

If the Paedophile has already molested a child they're a danger to children, and if they only serve a 3 year prison sentence, yes the child that was molested will probably have been spared death by the Paedophile, but in 3 years time the Paedophile can just go around and molest more kids and even improve their craft from the time that they got caught.