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Originally Posted by Patricia
I had to look this up and am now disgusted. I doubt whether this apparently psychopathic young woman is going to have an easy time in prison after what she has done.
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Actually, I've read worse things... But it's something I just can't understand why people do it...
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Originally Posted by Laz116
You see, I have great difficulty accepting such a disregard for human life you seem to endorse. It makes it very very difficult to tell the executioner apart from the criminal.
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There's a huge cultural difference between the States and most Western European countries considering punishment. I doubt we'd ever come together in that respect (unless the States lay off the death penalty all together...)
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Originally Posted by Laz116
First of all: There's a huge difference between torturing small animals and molesting or murdering children. I hope we can agree this far (don't know why you brought the latter into the discussion since it's hardly relevant to the case).
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Actually, I don't agree on this. I think it's actually the same.
I have two cats and no kids. Should I be less devastated if somebody tortured and killed my cat than if somebody tortured and killed your child? An emotional attachment is an emotional attachment. The fact that it's "only" a cat or "only" a child, shouldn't matter at all.
I can understand RM when she says she'd like to see that person dead. There was a piece in the newspaper last week about abuse to a horse. The horse survived (luckily) but my first thought, too, was about some form of capital punishment to the one that had done it (actually, I wanted the same happen to the person as what he did to that horse...)
What bothers me is, that she doesn't see anything wrong with it... Apparently she has a dog she loves...