Baby P's Parents/Killers
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- kelpie0
personally I think there is a bigger problem that a guy with known mental problems who is also known to "have a thing for hurting animals" is in any position to inflict that kind of horror on a child. I see no point in hurting him after the fact as a kind of punishment; I don't see what it achieves apart from a cathartic release of, frankly, impotent rage. It makes everyone a savage, rather than a few who should be identified and dealt with. Its a net that there will always be people falling through, but they will fall through it regardless of what revenge the state decides to carry out on them *after* they have committed their crimes. We need a tighter net, and that takes restructuring ad heavily manning and funding our civil services. Obviously though, that'd take high taxation.
These threads sadden me a bit, not because I'm on some pinnacle looking down at the sad little people who feel this way and post accordingly – I have as much of a capacity to feel the neutered anger that makes people want to "hang people by the balls" and "flay" them as any one else, I just don't see the point. Eye for an eye is utterly pointless except to satisfy a hunger for revenge, people who do these things are not subject to "deterrents", burglars maybe, but not sociopaths, or broken people who are twisted up in this way.
Anyway, I clearly hope some terrible fate befalls them, but I'd much rather they just weren't A: in a position to do this in the first place and, B: are never in a position to do it again.
- ps. I think if anyone here were to actually witness or have to inflict the pain they want, they'd quickly revise their position.kelpie
- Well said.Morning_star
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