Poland to chemically castrate sex offenders

No, but we should abolish idiotic laws like this one. That's one of the principal arguments against capital punishment- it's irreversible and completely inexcusible to go "Oh...well we thought he was guilty, so we killed him/chopped his balls off/lowered his sex drive/turned him into frogspawn with a laserbeam" or whatever.

How exactly do you "justify paedophilia" anyway?

Once again they are trying to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.

How about we try to prevent pedos/rapists from ever doing it in the first place, rather than increasing an arbitrary punishment instead. If anything, all these kinds of laws do is encourage a "the reason you shouldn't do $x$ is because you might get caught" mentality, rather than a "the reason you shouldn't do $x$ is because it is bad/wrong/etc" one.

I'll use drugs as an example - in countries such as the Netherlands, where weed is legal they also have lower rates of usage than in some European countries where it IS illegal. This is probably due to it not being seen as "desirable" when you tell people it's not some forbidden fruit. Also, in general, cannabis-legalised countries also have much better drug-education and precautionary measures than others, who once again still tout the old "don't do it because it is bad!" line.

Oh, and before someone replies to this saying I want to legalise rape/paedophilia, no. I'm just using drugs as an example of where stricter punishments don't always reduce the crime rates, but education and rehabilitation do.

This is the one piece of judgement that is very badly thought. If raping were caused by a normal/high sex drive, then a much higher percentage of the population would rape. There are infinite other ways of releasing sexual tension. Sex drive is not a sufficient condition to cause rape. Therefore I oppose the policy.

Weed isn't legal anywhere.

In the netherlands they tolerate it, but it isn't legal.

They tolerate it in the coffee shops and private residencies but if you smoke it anywhere else the police will arrest you for it, its their way of controlling weed by letting people smoke it in certain places, however as i have said it is still illegal by dutch law.

People can change.

Wow you've obviously done a lot of research into capital punishment haven't you? Not...

Quite obviously a lot more than the research that you have done on sex offenders...

Meh, I think you're being needlessly pedantic. If I can go to their country, walk into a shop, buy weed that they have manufactured, and then smoke it indoors (which also reminds me that we can't even smoke tobacco indoors in this country), then I consider to it be widely available enough for my point to still stand.

Are they sure that it's sex drive that is causing them to offend? I thought paedophilia was some kind of mental condition - surely something could be done to cure that instead?

They used to attempt to cure gays too. It didn't work. We can call it a mental condition, but that doesn't mean it can be 'cured'.

This is the one piece of judgement that is very badly thought. If raping were caused by a normal/high sex drive, then a much higher percentage of the population would rape. There are infinite other ways of releasing sexual tension. Sex drive is not a sufficient condition to cause rape. Therefore I oppose the policy.