# Would the world be better if all political leaders were castrated?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 4, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-if-all-political-leaders-were-castrated/421559 "2007-10-04T22:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-if-all-political-leaders-were-castrated/421559/21 "2007-10-05T04:44:10Z")

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[QUOTE=The Controvert]  
2. The public seems to have a problem with political leaders having non-societally approved sex. Castrating leaders would stop a lot of sex scandals.  
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Or you could just castrate the public so they stop caring.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-if-all-political-leaders-were-castrated/421559/22 "2007-10-05T16:07:06Z")

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[QUOTE=MGibson]  
castrated Bush  
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There’s a pubic hair joke here someplace, but I’ll be damned if I spend one more second thinking about Dubya’s package in order to perform the necessary refinements.

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-if-all-political-leaders-were-castrated/421559/23 "2007-10-05T17:37:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
There’s a pubic hair joke here someplace, but I’ll be damned if I spend one more second thinking about Dubya’s package in order to perform the necessary refinements.  
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Agreed, Cervaise. Even I thought discretion was the better part of valor when it comes to Bush’s package.

Marc

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**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-if-all-political-leaders-were-castrated/421559/24 "2007-10-08T05:58:48Z")

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[QUOTE=The Controvert]  
Ok, so what if political leaders were castrated, _only during times of war_? So, there is a price to be paid to start or continue an armed conflict.  
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Then you’d have to think if Bush would have his balls cut off if he ever has to defend America from an attack. I’m guessing no.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-be-better-if-all-political-leaders-were-castrated/421559/25 "2007-10-08T12:02:47Z")

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[QUOTE=The Controvert]  
2. The public seems to have a problem with political leaders having non-societally approved sex.  
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Isn’t this tautological? Isn’t non-scoietally approved _anything_, by definition, that which the public has a problem with?

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