In many ways, mentioning Alan Turing is something of a red herring -- ANYTHING they did to him short of giving him public medals for saving England, and a wedding to his lover, would have been unfair. The fact that the form of injustice they subjected him to included chemical castration is almost irrelevant to that.
However, micheinnz's comment does point out that chemical castration is NOT without cost, and quite potentially severe cost.
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Date: 2011-08-21 01:03 am (UTC)In many ways, mentioning Alan Turing is something of a red herring -- ANYTHING they did to him short of giving him public medals for saving England, and a wedding to his lover, would have been unfair. The fact that the form of injustice they subjected him to included chemical castration is almost irrelevant to that.
However, micheinnz's comment does point out that chemical castration is NOT without cost, and quite potentially severe cost.