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Originally Posted by The Baby Jesus
Hold on a minute. My post was made because I've seen posters calling for their torture. That's wrong, petty, and pretty ******ing barbaric. There is a difference between treating them with kid gloves, and not breaking laws to torture people, because there is a whole area in the middle, right between playstations and eye for an eye.
By the same token, if we're so much better than they are, then why is our first instinct to act in exactly the same way and mirror their behaviour? The crime committed that day was unimaginable to me (as a mostly sane person), so it is equally unimaginable to me that we should want to do the same things in retaliation.
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Stop! You're breaking my heart...
Maybe people feel justified saying what they'd like to do to these two because the two murderers themselves have stated that they live by the "eye for an eye" philosophy. I'm tired of being the ones who have to be "better than that" while other people people feel free to commit atrocities on the streets of our cities and then try to justify themselves... and other people say,
oh hang on, don't talk about torturing them, that's just awful... Pretty ******ing barbaric is right. But I'm referring to what they did not what some posters said they'd like to do.
My personal belief is that they should be taken outside and shot in the head. No fuss, no ritual, no bills for their care for the rest of their lives. As far as I'm concerned they threw back my concern for their welfare when they did what they did.