# I Hate People **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313 "2009-01-28T00:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/41 "2009-01-29T18:26:04Z")
I spent the day with my 2 year old nephew and 3 year old niece yesterday, and I cannot possibly fathom intentionally hurting them, for ANY reason. I don’t think, even with the promise to grant all my wildest dreams and fantasies, that it’s something I could physically do. The thought just absolutely repulses me. The instinct to protect them is so strong. These people are damaged goods, unfit for society. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but they should **NEVER** breathe free air again. They lost their right to be accepted as free members of human society, as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/42 "2009-01-29T21:06:33Z")
_"She said Riley’s father, her former boyfriend, had assaulted her and Zeigler (who subsequently threw the child across the room, fracturing her skull) was her “knight in shining armor, her Texas cowboy.”_ Regarding her taste in men, she has chosen…poorly. There will be pen-pal opportunities during her stint in prison, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Drygon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@Drygon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drygon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/43 "2009-01-29T21:44:00Z")
Reading this article made my physically sick. I don’t think these people should be put to death though. I think that having to spend the next 80 years in prison thinking about how you murdered a child would be worse torture than anything I could imagine. Of course, they probably have already rationalized it in their own minds as an “accident.” If this is the case, a similar “accident” happening to them in prison would not upset me in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/44 "2009-01-29T23:05:04Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > Those that murder children make me want to eyeball stab the mother fuckers with a piece of 3inch trim molding then smash their head with a drywall hammer. > [@Marley23](#): > > Moved to the Pit. Yeah, a toss-up between there or the Barn House. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/45 "2009-01-29T23:24:19Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Awful and tragic. > > I wonder, though, how the prosecution knows that the girl reached out to her mom, saying I love you as her last words and so forth. Also wondering how the prosecution could possibly know this. ETA: **Plynk** wins the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Typo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Typo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/46 "2009-01-29T23:32:28Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > I’ve been waiting three years for my daughter to tell me she loves me. God, that broke my heart. And I’ve got at least a year to wait. I had to pick my daughter up and cuddle her closely so she wouldn’t see me cry. I just cannot fathom this, that beautiful little girl… ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/47 "2009-02-07T20:09:11Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I think you mis-spelled heartless animals. > > Bastards. Any animal I’ve ever known had much more of a heart than this. I think “filth” would suffice. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/48 "2009-02-07T20:11:14Z")
> [@Charger](#): > > Uh, yeah, whoops, things “just” spun out of control. I hate when that happens. I know! Just the other day I was walking down the street and battered a toddler to death out of nowhere. It just flew into me. ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313/49 "2009-02-08T19:10:23Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I do not understand how it could even be considered as a mitigating circumstance. I suppose the defense lawyer is probably working off the – they’re fucked, and this is all I got – strategy, but still. It’s maddening to listen to someone try to excuse something like this. I see it differently. The burden of proof is 100% on the state. If the defense tosses out an alternate theory in order to make the prosecution jump through all the hoops necessary, that is good because it does not degrade our level of justice for all trails once this one is forgotten. The claim in cases like this is merely to keep the prosecution honest and provide sufficient evidence for their claims. This stuff happens more then you might think. Among high profile cases, is this really any different in levels of gruesomeness then Scott Peterson for example, except that he was a charming and college educated and so was his wife? Both crimes resulted in victims found washed up in a bay somewhere. Everyone is not entitled to a finding of not guilty, but everyone _is_ entitled to a fair trial. ETA: The day we stop having fair trials because the circumstances are horrible to contemplate is going to be a far worse day for all of us then even this day was for this child. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people/483313.md?page=2)