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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I meant it as stated. I'm not looking for a lynching, mind you. It's a simple matter of insisting on justice which I would hope people agree that we need. Victims can forgive those who hurt them if they so choose. But the rest of us need to protect others from becoming victims. Copyright infringement is theft and is harmful to people and needs to be prevented and those who commit it need to be punished. I don't understand why that should be disturbing to read although it may be distasteful. If it is still disturbing, please explain more.  |
It did sound a little as though you were advocating "vigilante-ism", and I'm sure that none of us would like to see that, even those of us who do feel passionately about it. I'm sure that you didn't mean to give that impression.
It's like the case I saw reported on the BBC News recently from your home state, Texas, where someone had gone out of his house with a shotgun and murdered, in cold blood, two men who had broken into his neighbour's house. Yes, we'd all accept that burglary is a crime, but it certainly isn't one for which the death sentence is appropriate, and there's never any justification for someone to take the law into their own hands. The appalling thing in this particular case is that the man who committed these murders had not even been arrested. I was absolutely horrified to hear that
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