as for your statement about being more compassionate twords child molesters, I think i understand where you are coming from. Correct me if I am wrong , but you dont mean to wrap your arms around them and love them right? You mean offering more help for those who recognize the problem and ask for help BEFORE they loose control? Maybe offering counceling , even drug therapies so that they dont have to wait until after they have committed the crime before they get help? Is that what you mean?
People with AIDS have no peace. There is no silence in thier lives. I cant say wich would be the easier label to live with. Aids makes everyone react to you like you are a walking time bomb. People stillthink that just being in the room with someone who has aids will give them aids and they go out of thier way to avoid you. Doctors, nurses , and other medical staff even treat you like you are a disgusting piece of crap. ( I have seen this more often then not.) Those who do know you and know you have aids dont treat you the same either. All of a sudden they treat you like you can not take care of yourself.All thier conversations with you are about how you are feeling, what is wrong, are you ready for death etc...Though that may not be as bad as being labled a child molester, that action rips apart any and all peace you thought you had. It is exhausting.
Granted, I see where you are coming from with the comparison, but aids and child molesters dont really have alot in common. It is hard to imagine having either label on you.
In my very humble opinion
I would kill a child molester just for existing. Sorry.. but I would. There is no way to right the wrong of molesting a child. That child now has to live with thier own death of person for the rest of thier lives. Jail is no substitute or equal punishment for that.