[Ronn_Bman]

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. Makes you wonder what? That instead of this guy being stoned by the local tribesmen, he was tried in a court, and the local tribesmen think his punishment was too light? Would you really want someone tortured? Or killed even? REALLY? Do you even know what that entails? Evidently not. Tortured? Actually NO, but saying he deserves it isn't really the same as doing it. Killed? Absolutely, I think he should be put to sleep like a rabid dog. Do you know what it entails? I doubt it unless you are the "black-hooded ax man" at a penal institution responsible for administering that punishment, or a murderer. Evidently not? Please spare us your "holier than thou" attitude. You have about as much knowledge about killing someone as anyone else here. All people have the right to life, even those guilty of the worst of crimes. See Neb's post for a rebuke of this silly statement 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. Insane? No. Twisted? Yes. It's not the same thing. If you read the article, you'd see that greed not insanity was this A-Hole's motive for this "time released" murder. People who do this kind of thing aren't automatically insane, and since you mention that you aren't a psychologist, I don't think your evaluation of this "patient" is a particularly valid argument. BTW, it's very nice that you spent your entire post attacking the opinons of others and saying why this piece of trash should live, but didn't have a single comment for the victims. I love the "victims don't count", save the guilty mentality.

[ 11-20-2002, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]