Re: Steubenville rape case
 

No matter what the society is, you cannot stop some individuals from succumbing to their hormones and offending others.

After they have done this, you can either:

1 Take a mental health status of such people [like the murder cases] and let them off to a 6 months sentence in a mental asylum where they will prove their sanity and walk out soon.

2 Send them off to life imprisonment, in which case there will be an uproar from the media and human rights organisations about giving such a 'brutal' sentence for such a 'mild' crime.

3 Send them to the electric chair/gas chamber, in which case there will be criticism that the justice department is acting with revenge and the families of murder victims will also demand their criminals to be put to death sentence.

Its a bone in the stork's throat. You can't gulp it down and you can't regurgitate it.

Re: Steubenville rape case
 

Even if you assume that some people are going to offend whatever you do, people will offend at different rates. And those are far from the only options available for addressing offences that do occur.