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originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: burdman30ott6
Best post in this thread!
I have been around both humans and animals for my entire life. The least dangerous are the animals. Humans will trick you, conspire to hurt you, yes, kill you even if they think they can somehow profit from it in ways that make so sense to anyone else... like get more green paper (or ensure you don't get green paper).
The very idea of trying to place humans over animals due to some perceived morality is absolutely laughable. I'll take the morality of a rattlesnake over the morality of the average human any day.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: TheGreatWork
The graduation from the animal kingdom to the human kingdom is to learn to be like humans and not animals.
But what, exactly, does this entail and who decides it is so? Nothing on God's Green Earth kills more out of vengeance, destroy more out of spite, or takes more out of greed than humanity does... sort of seems like that's just man being man, does it not?
originally posted by: shawmanfromny
a reply to: carewemust
Mob justice would be the end of a civilized society.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: roadgravel
When they have your kids, it is a reasonable reason to beat on the person.
But i've seen a guy (in my hometown) that chased a regular car thief down and shot him. That was ruled murder. Protecting property that you don't secure isn't a reason to kill. Protecting 3 children who were kidnapped is.
Im sorry. Ill never agree with you. My kids are grown, and i'd still shoot someone who put them in mortal danger. And i'd likely go to prison for that, as they are adults.
originally posted by: ZeroFurrbone
You kill the person who stole your car, his parents kill you for killing him, your cousin kills them and thats an endless circle of pain and suffering.
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
originally posted by: shawmanfromny
a reply to: carewemust
Mob justice would be the end of a civilized society.
I agree with you. (Mark this date). The kids were safe. Would it have been quite as acceptable if they had strung him up? Careful what you ask for, folks.
The problem is the other person will be dead while you keep on living without a regret.
originally posted by: Graysen
In an ideal world, the dad and company would be evil for perverting the call for justice.
But in this country, the cops are not about stopping crime, or even about justice. They are merely in the business of crowd control.
Back before there were jails and cops, a captured criminal would be blindfolded by having his hoodie pulled over his face (hood-winked), and forced to be run between two lines of the local yeomanry.
If they thought you were basically not very guilty, they would smack you very lightly. If they thought you sucked, they’d hit you with farming implements and you’d never reach “the end of the line.”
The hoodwink was just so you wouldn’t know who hit you hardest,
Most people survived the gauntlet, except rapists and murderers.
There were fewer repeat offenders then
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: roadgravel
When they have your kids, it is a reasonable reason to beat on the person.
But i've seen a guy (in my hometown) that chased a regular car thief down and shot him. That was ruled murder. Protecting property that you don't secure isn't a reason to kill. Protecting 3 children who were kidnapped is.
Im sorry. Ill never agree with you. My kids are grown, and i'd still shoot someone who put them in mortal danger. And i'd likely go to prison for that, as they are adults.
originally posted by: ZeroFurrbone
a reply to: Lysergic
Well everyone says they would kill the person that endangers their kids and that its compeltely normal.
By their own point of view the parents of the killed guy will kill them too for endangering their kid.