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... and is accused of being "nearly as bad as the culprits in this matter" by GSM7554, as if Quizmonkey was condoning the crime itself !!
This is exactly the hysterical reaction that QM expressed concern about.
Yes, it's an abhorrent crime, but don't assume that because some of us are not immediately on the rampage looking for someone to castrate, hang or torture (torture? Now that is sick), that we don't care.
Now take your ignorant, hysterical lynch mob and go and petrol bomb another paediatrician.
Hackneyed comments that the death penalty puts us on the same level as the criminal are, of course, patently absurd, as are comments about state sanctioned execution being 'murder' - these are the usual feeble arguments trotted out in any debate on this issue...............however, despite the above, I am vehemently against the death penalty.
My punishment would be whole life imprisonment with no frills - I'm talking a 4ft by 4ft dank cell, solitary, no TV etc etc etc....
don1, could you explain how having a belief that it is the role of the law and judiciary to punish offenders, and not a lynch mob equate to expressing 'obvious sympathies towards paedophiles' ?
lankeela, it is because we are a 'civilised society' that we find this crime abhorrent.
It is as a 'civilised society' that we have in place a system for dealing with offenders.
If we descend to the level of lynch mobs, (torture, castration, and your own 'tying up in the town centre' are just some of the ideas put forward by posters), then we no longer have a society. We have rule by a hysterical mob who feel they are above the law - a vociferous judge and jury rolled into one. Lord help you when you say, or do, or think something that the mob disagrees with.
Don1 - I have absolutely no idea to whom you are referring to when you made the remark and I quote "Regardless of the obvious sympathies towards paedophiles we have seen here".
Ever regretted pressing the submit button.That was an astonishing remark to make.Can you not have an opposing view without accusing people, who perhaps dont support your view,of being sypathetic to paedos.
I along with my daughter have been on the receiving end but I can still debate it rationally.
Obviously everyone feels strongly about this. There is a death penalty in USA and I believe that there are arguments for and against reintroducing it here. I dont think its murder to take the life of child rapists but again I WOULD NOT VOTE in favour of reintroducing it here (despite my kneejerk reaction is I want those ******** dead). As said somewhere else we have along history of making mistakes and the system is fallable.
I do not however think that our justice system will give this girls family that (even death wouldnt do that, but I am sure it would provide them with a temporary respite). There has to be a better system in place to protect are children because despite QUIZMONKEYS sarcastic comments all young children are innocent. I wish i was better person and didnt wish child molesters dead but my feelings on this matter have gotten very strong since becoming a mother. IT IS DIFFERENT when you are parent, you love a child like no other in you life, where as I could empathise in these cases before I feel sickened and heartbroken now. What exactly are we gonna do to protect our children???