Child Killer flogged, stabbed, hanged in public.

DR H................are you using your sarcasm and wit IN MY FAVOR or against ME...... sir????


angie

Originally posted by amb1063
DR H................are you using your sarcasm and wit IN MY FAVOR or against ME...... sir????


angie

Unbelievable brilliance, your wisdom and in-depth knowledge of this subject is without measure among your peers, have a safe joy-joy day.

ok.............well now that wasn't a very straight up answer.

i sense massive sarcasm oozing..............but since i love you dearly......i'll overlook you...............and also wish you a joy joy day!

angie

[edit on 18-3-2005 by amb1063]

Let’s stay on topic please. If you have nothing constructive to add to the conversation then add nothing to the conversation.

Thanks KL.

Sanc'.

I personally truely feel for the children and their parents. But this is kind of going to far. A legal system is suppose to bring justice. It is suppose to deter other people from doing evil. What was done to this man was done because of anger, not a sense of justice. But in this case, to be honest, when I read it at first I was happy, and I think we can overlook the barbarism.

Whilst it is obvious to all that these people got their just desserts, can we just stand back a little, take a deep breath and count to ten?

Over the course of history, there have been some truly barbaric punishemnts inflicted on people, often for lesser crimes than those mentioned in this story - being hanged, drawn and quartered, for example, was once a popular entertainment for visitors to the Tyburn tree. In China, you could be sawn in half. In some sates of the US you might be fried in the electric chair. The list is endless really. Torture and punishment has long been a crowd pleaser it seems.

But, the point is - did those punishemnts then ever actually stop a would-be criminal? Did the tortures act as a deterent? I think not - brutality breeds brutality IMO. Whilst it might make us feel good to see people whipped, stabbed, hanged, does that make us better people - or does it bring us down to their level? Make your own mind up please - I know you will.

But what I find disturbing is the way in which on one hand we condemn the perpertrators of child abuse - but allow, by inaction, to see children die by neglect, or starvation, or by acts of war. So, we can turn a blind eye to AIDS in Africa, allow the poisining of the planet by the acts of large corporations or governments, all without the same degree of vengence being expressed here? For there are children dying every day - alone, in tears, in pain, slowly, without hope or any chance of survival. Isn't that child abuse too?

Yes, we live in enlightened times - let's go flog some more murderers - that will make the world a better place for sure.

Just my two cents....

Originally posted by AlfredENewman[/i
But what I find disturbing is the way in which on one hand we condemn the perpertrators of child abuse - but allow, by inaction, to see children die by neglect, or starvation, or by acts of war. So, we can turn a blind eye to AIDS in Africa, allow the poisining of the planet by the acts of large corporations or governments, all without the same degree of vengence being expressed here? For there are children dying every day - alone, in tears, in pain, slowly, without hope or any chance of survival. Isn't that child abuse too?
Just my two cents....

Fairenough- but that is not the point we are talking about people who molest children- yes i am certainly aware that their are children dieing of AIDS acts of starvation and so on- that is their and our goverments fault- and yes before anything gets said i would happily donate money my bf donates to unicef every month- everyone tries their best to sort out the sitution but their is only so much we can do. But child molestation happens right down our streets vermin are walking our streets and there is something we can do.

I know that violence isnt always the way but in this situation if i was a parent, and it happend to my child, i personaly would want that person to suffer as much or even more than my child had to.

The only people that can sort out the poverty there and stop us polluting is the GOVERNMENT- we can help to a certain point- but we cannot make laws but goverments can- and they say its not so simple but they could clear the debts with AFrica if they wanted to but obviously dont.