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Originally Posted by Libertine
Bah. I'm arguing a point I don't even support myself.
Although I suppose I would rather enjoy seeing the guys who did this get boiled in oil, I am against the death penalty. It does not deter crime, and it reflects badly upon any society that performs it, since it represents the rather uncivilized idea that institutionalized murder is somehow an intrinsic right of the state. In reality, no state should either have or want the right to kill unwanted elements when they pose no immediate danger to others and there exists an alternative. Protecting society from people guilty of such atrocities, however, can be achieved by locking them up.
I suppose I would prefer a world in which the sort of people who perform actions such as this would simply not exist, but sadly, simply murdering them would not remove the impact of their actions on society. A shame, really.
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It's easy to get caught up in the emotion tied with shit like this.
As I'm sure with most here, I know there's a part of me that wishes I was at the scene of this crime with a shotgun and a chainsaw and a small armed force - to do what I can to save that woman and her son from such a travesty.
But once it's done, it's done - once they're caught, it's over - and letting emotion into the equation at that point only clouds matters, I think. IMHO, you do what you can to pick up the pieces, and move on - doing what you can to prevent it in the future, and hopefully learning something along the way.