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Originally Posted by Livia
Oh boo freakin' hoo... These people are treated with kid gloves by the system in this country as it is. They'll be segregated, have access to books and medicine, they'll be warm and well fed according to their religious needs... meanwhile Lee Rigby's family will spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with the atrocity the orchestrated. Ask them if we should be trying to set an example. I find it hard to believe that already people are worrying for the welfare of this pair.
They cited "an eye for an eye" when they run down a young soldier and father, then repeatedly stabbed him and tried and almost succeeded in hacking off his head in broad daylight on a London street. And now we've got to be all understanding? If they'd committed an act like this in an Islamic country, under Sharia law, an eye for an eye is exactly the kind of justice they'd get. And I wouldn't have a problem with that, and I believe I'm not alone.
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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.
20-12-2013, 10:01 AM
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