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"The laws that you would like to put into effect would have disastrous effect on your society. This is because people get carried away. The downtrodden of your country would be afraid to ever speak up because they would know that if they were arrested and went to court the judge would have the ability to castrate them."
Of course, there is always a risk it would be abused.
But then again, is having a society that is cleansed of crime with harsher punishments worse than having a society seething with crime with barely no punishments?
I'd choose the former, but that's because i'm quietly confident i wouldn't be put in a compromising position.
It would also go on a three strike system -
Get into mischief with the Police - Warning.
Get into more mischief with the Police - Sterilisation, with the chance of still having children if you reform.
Get into EVEN more mischief with the Police - Castration.
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Okay, attempting to continue discussion maturely:
What worries me is that this sort of thing can be misdirected pretty quickly. You could start off giving the courts the right to castrate child-abusers but what happens when some far-right party gets into power? Pretty soon it'll be the punishment du jour for whomever the leaders don't like; be they criminals, foreigners or sexual deviants like homosexuals.
And I like my nadgers, thankyou very much.
As a great poem goes:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller