Convicted paedophile found strangled and dumped in woods, page 6

reply to post by thebox

If it was batman or the punisher killing this guy though, everything would be fine right? Justice prevails while the world moves on. Maybe it was wrong and evil, maybe it was right and justice.. The guy is dead so it doesn't really matter how we argue about it. Maybe this nation COULD use a little well-aimed vigilante justice though.. Only because our legal system is so ridiculously sad that people who actually committed crimes can easily get off without a hitch and people not even involved with the crime can sometimes be charged with something they didn't do in the first place. And, IMO, even in cases where criminals are actually caught and charged, the penalty does NOT fit the crime.

The bible is where alot of America's ethics and values derive. Everyone has always been told "killing is the worst sin of all". It is not even religious anymore. It is a taboo that is built-in to American culture. Yet, there are huge double standards people often overlook because people fail to see their own ignorance from the outside in.

Double standards like..

- The death penalty
- Military soldiers being cheered on by family and friends at home while those very same soldiers blow other human beings to bloody chunks on the battlefields of the world.

Just to name a couple of the most prominent that immediately come to mind.

I'm not arguing one way or another on the ethical debate about the death penalty. I'm just saying that the double standard exists because people justify humans killing other humans in certain situations where it is "needed" (whatever that means) even when their own culture considers it taboo.

Don't get me wrong..
I'm perfectly fine with soldiers blowing terrorists to bits and convicted killers being executed for their crimes if a judge finds that verdict fitting. I built bombs in the U.S. Air Force for 6 years. Building things that kill people and break their stuff on the battlefield was our entire purpose..The difference is that I am not an idiotic hypocrit. I did it for a few years, I was good at what I did, and we took great pride in our work.

Maybe I'm a sociopath, maybe I'm not.. But make no mistake..Modern media is not just a projection of human nature, it also injects values and norms into society until it suddenly becomes "socially accepted" for 6 month-olds to wear high heels and 11 year old girls to look like prostitutes while at Wal-Mart with their parents. Values and social norms don't matter anymore. When you have kids, and you are trying to raise them from a young age to be decent, respectable adults, THIS STUFF MATTERS.. About 3 hours ago we watched some guy beat the living heck out of some drunk lady up the road.. We had to call the cops, the whole 9 yards. Noone can preach to me about "Values" and "ethics".. Because as far as I'm concerned you can shove it up your *$&#(..

-ChriS

[edit on 10-10-2008 by BlasteR]