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UK expands chemical castration pilot programme for sex offenders – but what are the risks?
(theconversation.com)
i dunno let's ask alan turing oh wait
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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The problem with these kind of laws is that the people proposing and supporting them often believe themselves exempt.
This sounds more like a case of constantly taking "anti-horny" medication, rather than an enforced permanent castration.
So that's a higher risk of someone not taking the medication, but a lower risk of a right-wing government using it to ethnically or socially "cleanse" a population.
All in all, a lot less scary than it could have been.