I have no problems with this. If they don't want to be sterilized they shouldn't be committing crimes. It's no bigger a violation of their human rights than locking them in a metal cage for several months or years.
Ok, sarcasm aside, why the fuck is eugenics or whatever the hell this is still a thing?
Or was that even the point of this? Was this just another chapter in Americas long quest to treat are prisoners as horribly as possible because somehow that'll fix crime?
Lots of people in the United States still believe in eugenics. There's a vocal plurality that uses "personal responsibility" as an excuse to justify punishing groups that they deem inferior, and that inferiority must be genetic, despite the complete inability of eugenicists to find the genetic markers for criminality, race, etc.
You don't have to believe that criminality is genetic in order to know criminals probably wouldn't make good parents.
I want to respectfully disagree, but nothing you said was worth respecting in the slightest. So, pardon me, but I'm going to call out your bullshit.
First of all, you really think an invasive, permanent, unreversable surgery is equivalent to being in prison? Your sense of perspective isn't just buggered, it's non-existent. The two are in no way equivalent.
Second of all, prisoners do have rights. In fact, they
should have rights. Dehumanizing any group of people for any reason is a sign of many terrible things about the person or people doing the dehumanizing. A society that dehumanizes criminals is a society that is quickly going down the tube - history has proven this.
Thirdly, yes, criminals can be good parents. Does it surprise you? It shouldn't. All kinds of people end up criminals for one reason or another.
And finally, the biggest problem with the load of horse shit you just spewed into this thread is that the primary purpose of prison is to
reform. Keeping harmful elements out of society is a close secondary purpose.
Not to mention,
WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS HAPPEN.Let me ask you this - would you support prisons cutting off fingers and toes of the criminals, just because they are criminals? Would you support them pulling kidneys out of people, leaving them with just one? How about cutting out eyes, or breaking their eardrums, or any other such thing?
If you said "no" to any of the above, then you are a hypocrite for condoning them doing this, which is
just as bad.