08/01/2026
If Florida has moved toward authorising the death penalty for people who sexually assault children under twelve, the logic of that move raises disturbing questions. Taken seriously, it implies a scale of punishment that no society could actually absorb. R**e viticms constitute a significant portion of our society. We are not just out there, we are all around you.That reality alone suggests the prevalence of abuse runs far deeper than the legal system tends to admit. So when lawmakers gesture toward extreme penalties, I can’t help thinking they may be legislating fantasy rather than grappling with social truth. There simply aren’t prisons large enough, courts efficient enough, or moral frameworks honest enough to carry out such laws consistently. The result isn’t justice; it’s selective enforcement, symbolic violence, and political theatre. In that sense, mass incarceration, or even ex*****on, starts to look like an unspoken admission of systemic failure, not a solution. Again! If such a law were applied without hypocrisy or selectivity, the planet itself would become uninhabitable. The scale of sexual violence is not marginal; it’s structural. So the fantasy isn’t just about “cleaning up society,” it’s about pretending that perpetrators are rare monsters rather than embedded in families, churches, schools, militaries, refugee camps, and homes.
If every offender were executed, the earth would quite literally turn into a mass grave. The soil would carry it. The air would carry it. No amount of moral rhetoric would disinfect that.
In that sense, it wouldn’t be perpetrators who need removal, it would be survivors.
Victims would have to migrate, not because they are guilty, but because the planet would be saturated with the consequences of a violence society long normalised and then suddenly decided to punish all at once. An exodus to another planet becomes a grim metaphor for what justice systems keep postponing: there is no external “away” where we can dump the outcome of our collective failure.
I may be overstating it slightly, but the image holds. Capital punishment at that scale doesn’t restore moral order; it exposes how fragile and dishonest our social contracts already are. What looks like moral toughness ends up revealing a civilisation that never dealt with harm when it was quiet, private, and inconvenient, only when it could be turned into a spectacle.