Clifford Olson, the murderer of 11 children in British Columbia in the 80s is dying of cancer.
I am quite assuredly against the death penalty, and yet I can’t make myself feel bad about this. In fact, I not only don’t feel bad about it, I kind of hope it sucked for him.
It’s uncomfortable to feel this way about another person, but there you go. Perhaps after I’ve thought about it more a bit of compassion for him will turn up.
Feeling good about a convicted serial child murderer dying is most assuredly not a moral failing. Fuck him. If I was in charge of the state’s purse strings the first thing I would cut would be the painkiller budget for scum like him.
I hope he is basically a stranger to you.
Just like any of the other strangers dieing of cancer that you don’t care about.
When cancer took my best friend in 2008 I was angry. I said, “Why do evil people never seem to get cancer? Why does it always seem to take good people who don’t deserve it?”
This just proves that cancer doesn’t discriminate.
Does he deserve it? In my opinion, yes. He is an evil sadistic child-killer with no remorse, and in a country with no death penalty (which I don’t support anyway, because death is too good for people like him), yes he deserves to finally suffer.
Just my humble opinion.
I’m not against the death penalty because it I think people shouldn’t die, or even because I see death as inordinate punishment. I’m against the death penalty because I think it’s too much power to give the state over it’s citizenry.
Good people die all the time without my noticing or caring. Why on earth should I shed a tear for this asshole?
Agree. Against the death penalty in general/societal terms but give a rat’s ass for particular individuals.
Well, I feel terrible about this. Just terrible.
Because I don’t have him on my Death Pool list. :mad:
Yep, total stranger - I know him only from his infamy.
However, if I found out some other random stranger was dying of cancer I would feel bad for them in a general sense.
Not so for Clifford. I mean, I haven’t baked a cake and spelled out 'Die Motherfucker, Die!" in frosting on the top of it or anything. I thought about it though…
It’s a bit uncomfortable to find out you’re more vengeful than you originally thought.
Nor I, and it seems as though he will croak before 31 December.
Not every death diminishes me. Sorry John Donne. May he rot in hell. I feel the same about Rick Perry, though.
I try really, really hard to go with John Donne on this one. Sometimes, I have to bend myself into logical knots to get there.
With Mr. Olson’s death, we lose the possibility of studying what would cause a human being to commit such evil acts. If we lose the possibility of study, we lose the possibility of understanding, treating, and preventing.
That’s all I got.
This turd when asked where other victims are buried said “FU pay me” they did 150K. He also taunted and tormented the families from prison.
Good riddance scum bag.
As I recall, he also wanted to receive royalties for his biography, which were denied him on the grounds of not allowing a person any financial gain from illegal acts. I may be misremembering though…
I’m paraphrasing Dennis Miller a bit here, but I agree with his sentiment that human beings are both the noblest and most savage of all animals, sometimes in the same moment. The fact of the matter is that Olson will spend the remainder of his life in prison, as he was sentenced to do, justice will be served, and the world will keep on turning. The non-sociaopaths among us need to be protected from the gross abberrations like Clifford Olson and no one need feel one tiny bit of remorse for that.
I feel sorry for him. I can’t imagine pre-incarnation humans lined up waiting to be born, and this particular one making an informed choice to be a sadist or pedophile.
Car theft I get - I like cars - I wouldn’t mind having a dozen of the nicer ones sitting out back. But I can only imagine this guy became who he is because of some process that neither he nor anybody else would knowingly and understandingly opt in to.
I think people like this should be isolated and incarcerated to protect everybody else, but treated humanely, as though they have an incurable contageous fatal disease. Making them suffer hardly seems useful or beautiful.
I feel sorry for his victims too. If we had to choose between victims and killer, I’d have to favor the victims.
I wonder if he will try to get released from prison on a “compassionate” basis as his illness advances. :rolleyes: That Manson Family murderer Susan Atkins tried it when she was diagnosed with brain cancer, although thankfully they had the good sense to deny her request.
I do think this is a person the world will be better off without. When someone kills innocent people and then is so completely without remorse that they taunt the victim’s family, it is pretty clear that their basic humanity is lacking in a very fundamental way.
This person probably doesn’t feel emotions in the way that the rest of us do and probably doesn’t care if anyone has compassion for him except in terms of trying to manipulate people who feel sorry for him (see above example of possibly trying to get a “compassionate release” to “die at home in peace” or some such nonsense).
My thoughts exactly.
Good riddance to bad trash.
Just fwiw a good friend of mine went to school with him and told me that he used to come in quite beaten up, including a broken arm, I think. As I recall it was his father or perhaps stepfather doing the beating and this was in elementry school. Hardly an excuse but certainly a factor in how he turned out.
Helluva sad life all around.
Too bad his dad beat him. Also too bad his dad didn’t beat him to death.
If you’re even a bit religious, the thought of what may be awaiting him is somewhat…daunting…