It sickens me, but this looks almost identical to the rape trial I was a juror for: 9 women, 3 men, and a piece-of-shit defense attorney who proceeded to try and suggest that yoga pants were “asking for it” for three fucking days.

I know where you’re coming from - but there have to be boundaries on revenge. By that logic, everyone convicted of assault, fraud, - not to mention murder - should have to register for their crimes. It wouldn’t be tenable or moral, in the end.

My view has nothing to do with rapists rights and everything to do with victims. I’m arguing that rehabilitation can prevent people from getting raped/harmed.

I am a survivor too. Rehabilitation isn’t about improving perpetrators lives. It’s about preventing reoffending. So as much as I may like the idea of increasing stigma and making rapists suffer I ultimately care more about having them never ever do it again.

Now, new research suggests making it harder for offenders to find a place to live might increase reoffending. In a study released in July 2016, researchers from the California and Canadian justice departments looked at more than 1,600 California sex offenders on probation or parole. Overall, the group’s sex-crime…

No, but people who live a transient lifestyle are more likely to re-offend. The law itself makes them a greater threat to the community than they were before their first crime.

Why not a registry for murderers, drunk drivers, and people who have been convicted of unsafe or reckless use of firearms, then?

Actually no. For example, in Florida, you must live 1500 yards from any place that has any children. In practicality there are no dwellings that aren’t in the swamp that meet that requirement. There were a bunch of sex offenders living under a bridge because there was no where else for them to go. That’ll help…

The registry has a ton of problems. If a 18 year old can sleep with a consenting 16 year old and end up on the same list as a serial rapist, the list is pretty much useless.

Right, but the registry is something you do after prison. What’s the point of a sentence if it’s never over?

I’m not for sex offender registries. They don’t seem to do much good in terms of public safety, and although I think punishment is important in the legal system, the only way forward is to give people the chance to reintegrate into society.

It’s a tough conversation to have especially when connected to an unsympathetic douchebag like this.

I don’t understand the being a labelled a sex offender for life thing.

I’ll concede that that part wasn’t. But it’s the actual suicide part I was worried about. Some people aren’t concerned with how their parents will find them. Especially if their parents are someone they’re retaliating against. Out of the suicides I’ve known in my life only one of those people went out of their way to…

The problem was that she was at peace in the act except a second of pain and then they cut to her parents’ discovery. The act was romanticised but the aftermath wasn’t.

A lot of suicide prevent specialists said the show itself, not just the death scene, was problematic. Apparently when young suicide is glammorized or discussed often on the news, there is an increase in the suicide rates of teens/young adults.

Right it makes it seem like this was directly the result of shitty people. The reality is so much more complex than that.

This is precisely how I felt. I watched just the clip on YouTube so I could actually weigh in and other than crying and a bit of panic it still looks like it hurt for a few seconds and then was peaceful. Lots of shots of her calm, beautiful face with flawless eyebrows. It’s a bit graphic, but not enough to move away…

My problem with the show is the fact that it never once discusses mental health.

Hot Take: They should have picked a uglier way to commit suicide. Blood in the water is romantic imagery