I'm not saying I condone what happened to Nicole Simpson. But ...

… she engaged in a lot of different activities that were known to enrage O.J.

And Ron Goldman? If you mess around in the territory of a hot-headed, jealous ex-athlete long enough … well let’s just say the last look he should have had on his face was surprise when the knife was unsheathed.

I think it’s wrong, what happened to Nicole and Ron.

But if we don’t try to understand what O.J.'s motivation was, how can we keep this from happening again to, say, the beer cart girl at some suburban L.A. golf course?

How can we even be sure that it was O.J.?

I think women like Nicole Simpson need to reevaluate the way they act, so people like O.J. don’t get homicidally angry with them anymore.

Any other approach might create 1,000 other O.J.s

And this would be an oblique reference to which terrorism thread?

Nice response to the Sontag thread!

Sterling: Pick one.

Lola: Actually, I hadn’t read that one.

Actually, I think it was the way she dressed.

She was asking for it.

:mad: :rolleyes: :frowning:

Milossarian said

That’s just it. You can’t keep a jealous jerk from killing a loved one. Almost impossible unless you want to provide an armed guard for years.

How do we know it wasn’t OJ? Pulleeze!

Good point, samclem!

She did all kinds of despicable things, like move on with her life after O.J. There are indications that she slept with other men, and maybe even did coke.

[tepid qualifier]Murder is bad. I don’t support it.[/tepid qualifier]

But it’s very easy to understand why somebody like O.J. would have felt the way he did.

There are a lot of people out there that want to slash up their ex-wives and ex-girlfriends.

We all need to work together to see what we can change about ourselves so that they don’t feel that murderous rage against us or someone we love.

Oh, and really, imprisoning OJ and people like him wouldn’t stop things like this from happening, because we’ve done that in the past and it didn’t work, so now we have to find something different. The fate of millions of other women just like Nicole depend upon it! :rolleyes:

I love you guys. :slight_smile:

I’d love you back, but your husband might be watching. :eek:

Please forgive my thick-headedness, but it’s late and I’m tired.

Milo, are you trying to make a point about Nicole Brown Simpson or are you trying to make a point about something else? Because the former is unthinkable and the latter is…well, I’m just not getting it.

What husband?

Here comes the Blue Angels, flying in the missing man formation …
WHOOOSH!

Oh, geez! An ex-husband, then! That’s probably worse, according to Milo.

So, consider me whooshed. Now, will you please explain?

Green Bean:

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

It’s unthinkable.

Yeah, I know that. But what are you getting at?

Looking for things like evidence and trying to prevent terrorism is bad. We should just keep on retalitating instead because thats so much more emotionally satisfying. Your unpatriotic if you dare suggest a opinion other than my own, because now is a time for unity!

and think of OJ’s innocent children, who will be harmed if OJ is sent to jail, or even convicted and executed.
if we punish OJ, we will just be creating more OJs out of them, who will see the violence and injustic our society imposes upon OJ, and act out violently themselves.

we need to send massive amounts of government aid to OJ so as to stop the cycle of violence.

Sterra - What does that have to do with O.J., Nicole and Ron?