An EYE FOR A EYE

[Peikko 1,575]

MC, I don't mind you shadowing my every post, it does get tiresome to hear you repeat the same tune over and over.

If you can't come up with some new thought.... some new criticism.... move on.

Shadowing your every post? You wish

You advocate barbaric practices, I thought you might like say, Somalia?

[james&olya 1,121]

MC, I don't mind you shadowing my every post, it does get tiresome to hear you repeat the same tune over and over.

If you can't come up with some new thought.... some new criticism.... move on.

The doctor's expert diagnosis was just delivered. Danno, it seems you have an advanced case of cranio-ectopial endo-proctosis!

[Danno 1,228]

Shadowing your every post? You wish

You advocate barbaric practices, I thought you might like say, Somalia?

Speaking of that general area.... Check out my next topic.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

And this is the critically flawed thinking, which has so hindered our "justice system".. as well as many other areas of public policy.

Big dog actually considers harming the "evil doer" ....as an equivalent to the deeds done by the evil doer to an innocent child.

Do we "become one of them".... when we impose a fine on the thief?

Do we become one of them when we incarcerate the Kidnapper?

Once upon a time in this country we had harsh punishments.. without becoming barbaric.

People were publicly flogged, put in Stocks, sentenced to "hard labor" (for real).

There were fewer victims then.

Danno, you are a lost cause. My thinking ain't flawed, it has simply entered modern times and reflects my being part of the civilized population on the planet. Your thinking, on the other hand, reflects that you've missed the point when much of our species left the caves.

You see, incarceration isn't kidnapping and a fine isn't theft. And if you set out to correlate more civilized punishments with an increase in crime, then you're off to a bad start. If that was the case, crime in the rest of the developed world would exceed by far the crime in the US which has the harshest and most backward penal system among it's peers. And yet, crime is higher in this here land than elsewhere. How can that possibly be if your attempted correlation was valid in any way?

Edited December 15, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The justice system is supposed to be impartial, but the punishment should fit the crime. Sadly, that's not the case in some extreme instances. While I would not by a long shot condone cutting of the hand of a person who stole, there are some animals in human guise living among us that need to know that being locked up or putting softly to sleep is not going to cut it.

If a potential child rapist knew that his d*ck would be cut off with a knife and he would the be watched bleeding to death, I -- honestly -- believe it would save some of our children from becoming victims.

You might believe it, but blind belief doesn't justify an extreme course of action.