Originally posted by sos37
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
"Punish if you must but do it humanely and with dignity people. "
The same way this monster killed those children? With dignity?
I think not. Perhaps it's easy for me to imagine what I would do to a man like this as I was a victim once myself. You say you also have kids, 5
wasn't it? If a monster like this man had hurt or worse one of your kids, can you not say your rage would boil over and consume you? Forgive someone
like that? Never. Like I said, I would have no problem "stooping" to this monsters level to exact justice. If he took my only child away, what else
would I have to lose?
First my friend I am sorry that you once suffered being a victim of rape/and or mollestation.
Second my number one job as a Man, and a Husband and as a Father is to keep MY family safe and secure.
Should I ever fail to keep MY family safe and secure I will place the blame right where it belongs on MY shoulders.
It has not always been easy keeping MY family safe and secure, in fact it's a 24/7 ongoing challenge that never ends.
That is though the choice I made when I took a wife and CHOSE to bring children into this world.
I have a responsiblity and should I fail in that responsibility it is I who would rightly deserve to be punished for failing to live up to that
responsibility.
Lashing out at others for MY failure in the regard would not undo MY failure our undo any suffering caused by MY failure. Nor would it make me feel
any better for at the end of the day in the still of the night when confronting the MAN in the MIRROR, there would be no way to LIE about MY failure
to myself.
Someone failed to keep these children safe friend, and that is in a very real way ALL of OUR failures to create a better society where people are kept
safe and secure in their persons at ALL TIMES.
That becomes much more challenging when ever people are predisposed to think VIOLENCE is the answer for it just breeds a culture of violence which in
the end we are ALL victims too.
So far I have not failed in my responsibilities to keep my wife and children safe and secure. (knock on wood).
I hope I never do, but rather than dream and transfer those dreams in violent and sadistic ways to appease the inner fear of what drives me 24/7 to
keep my family safe and secure I prefer to focus on keeping my family safe in secure in part by constantly advocating for peace and TO STOP CRUEL
VIOLENCE every where and every place it exists because in the end my friend that is the ONLY thing that is ever going to make ALL people safe and
secure.
Are YOU part of the PROBLEM or are YOU part of the SOLUTION.
Your mind will answer those questions much better than your heart.
We are all victims friend of a world full of indifference violence, greed and war.
This occurences is a manifestation of that and you won't eliminate these things with more violence.
Violence only begets violence and while the world struggles with this very simple and basic notion and violently agrues over it, what you have is what
you get a whole lot of violence with out end.
