Spaceboy said:
If I kicked a sharks ass for killing someone I know it won't have any clue why I'm doing it but a person will know exactly what they did to bring this on themselves.

The guy is (hypothetically) already going to be executed, and knows what he did to bring it on himself.

What is the purpose of torturing him first? What is gained? Why sink to his level?

I don't see it as sinking to his level with regards to torture. I see it as proving the ultimate worth of a human being. To not torture and execute this person would be to say that the life he took was worth less than his.

I don't see how torturing anyone can prove the ultimate worth of a human being. Just ensure that he can't harm anyone else, whether that's jail for life or the death penalty. Torture for torture's sake is just excessively cruel, and I can't see how it serves any legitimate purpose in this situation.

Put me down as another who's almost as disturbed by all this bloodlust as I am by the original story. "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." -Nietzsche

[Edited on Mar 20, 2005 by Doghouse_Reilly]

Knights_Cross

Naperville, IL

March 2003

MAR 21, 2005 09:20 AM

While I agree that harsh punishment may not be the best solution, I'm at a loss for what could be a better solution. I don't believe in the idea of cooing and coddling them. Prison isn't supposed to be simplistic, it's supposed to be prison.

southboundrhino

I'm lost

January 2005

MAR 21, 2005 10:35 PM

You know that prison is not enough when the sex offender fears the other prisoners more than prison itself.

JohnSalisbury

Saint Louis, MO

March 2005

MAR 23, 2005 08:36 PM

Wren said:
Good God, can you imagine what her last moments must have been like? She was only in third grade! She can't possibly have understood what was happening to her or why.

I used to want to have kids. The older I get and the more I learn about the world, the less inclined I am to raise a family of my own.

Sad and ironic that the older you get and the more you learn the better parent you'd be.
I like to think that all paths lead to God, victims and perps alike, when they come to see God's face they go "Oh--I see now."
Wren, can you imagine what her life would have been like if she'd been brutally traumatized--and survived?

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doghouse_reilly

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Naperville, IL

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southboundrhino

I'm lost

January 2005

MAR 21, 2005 10:35 PM

JohnSalisbury

Saint Louis, MO

March 2005

MAR 23, 2005 08:36 PM