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Originally posted by Eisenschwarz:
Unlike Some people here, I consider Murder & Torture a bad thing.
The amount of hatred I see vented over things like this is sometimes dispiriting,
But of course it’s easy to _wish_ it on someone.
How far have we come in the last 2000 years?
This thread makes me wonder.
Would you really want someone tortured? Or killed even?
REALLY?
Do you even know what that entails?
Evidently not.
All people have the right to life, even those guilty of the worst of crimes.
What he did is an act of pure insanity; no normal person would do as such, Thus I probably think that being detained in a secure mental unit for the rest of his days will do, Of course since I am not a psych. I cannot say whether that would be truly appropriate, but it seems it.
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Got to agree here to a point. It's good that people get so upset at crimes such as these - but to respond with violence and hatred?? That disturbs me as well. Let him live out his days in prison reflecting on what he's done. He'll die slowly, trapped, as his son is doing.
Personally, I would want him to be repentant for what he's done before he died. Not excecuted in his defiance.
Remorse is powerful. For someone to be truly remorseful and repentant, they have arrived at a place where they understand the full meaning of what they've done.
I've seen time and time again that hurt people can only forgive the one who hurt them when they feel they have taken ownership of what they've done. When they understand the pain and torment they've caused them and would do anything, give anything, including their own life, to undo it.
I'd like to see him get to that point. It's an ideal I know, but that's why he's in gaol.
[ 11-20-2002, 06:04 PM: Message edited by: Leonis ]