[pc86]

> There are no "predators"

This is just as wrong as saying that everyone on the registry is a predator. Of course everyone isn't. But there absolutely are many violent rapists, pedophiles, etc on those registries. Plenty of people who made a mistake or got caught without a Romeo & Juliet law in their state, but also plenty of sexually violent predators.

[bambax]

There are no predators because a predator is an animal.

Calling people who committed crimes of sexual nature in the past, predators, is the same as calling people who committed theft, rats or other epithets.

The purpose of this naming scheme is to de-humanize the person, so as to justify the inhuman treatments one wants to subject them to.

It's a technique as old as society. It never ends well.

[aanm1988]

Humans are animals.

In fact humans as a species have evolved to become the greatest predators on the planet.

[bambax]

Well, ok. I would have no problem calling all humans predators, or rats, or whatever. The problem is when you use those words to single out some humans, and then proceed to give them a special treatment.