‘Why would I take a car to the beach? I’d take a doombudgie!’ ~ TRDJT
I also was raped, and the police did little about it. If I could find the guy I’m not sure what I’d do but if someone like me chose to take personal vengeance I wouldn’t stand in their way.
I can’t manage much opprobrium against a father who attacks his daughter’s rapist. But I can manage opprobrium against a society, and society’s systems like the court, that would allow him to. A vigilante response is understandable, but it’s no good in the long run, and that’s why we have laws.
Sorry to continue the hijack (though I think it’s allowed in The BBQ Pit), but this is something like how I feel about capital punishment.
I am opposed to capital punishment, but I confess there is some ambivalence. There are some people who ‘need killing’. But I can’t be opposed to capital punishment if I make exceptions. So even if someone ‘needs killing’, I oppose putting him or her to death. Keep the person in prison until he or she dies there. On the other hand if the person is killed, and while I won’t be happy about it, I won’t shed any tears either.
This. Some people in this thread seem to be suggesting that murder is OK as long as the victim is someone they want murdered. I assume there a few “nice” guys in prison. Who gets to decide which ones are OK to murder? What about the guy that knifed the doctor? Should he be punished, or does he get a pass because he stabbed the guy we don’t like? How can you punish a guy for committing a “good” murder.
As a society we have decided that murder is bad. We don’t get to qualify that position by adding “…except for people we really don’t like.”
If I learned that Trump got killed by a drunk driver and I wasn’t devastated by the news, it wouldn’t mean that I’m okay with drunk driving in some instances. Nobody here is endorsing violence in prisons or murder or any of that shit, this is a bullshit thread for blowing off steam and @Baker used it to blow off some steam. No need to make a federal case out of it.
I do think there’s a difference between that and cheering on the drunk driver. To me, that’s the line.
I can and would be pissed at the driver and want that person prosecuted while not being too mournful over the death of a person I find to have harmed and continues to harm the country.
It seems that he didn’t move the chair in a robust enough way anyway. I’d quote, but I really don’t want to read that article again.
Thank you Spice_Weasel for your comments. I really appreciate how you worded things. I get so frustrated that the crooks seem to get more consideration than the victims.
And I know I kind of poked the bear there with Monty and feel bad about that, as they are one of my favorite posters.
Sorry, but I do not see your example as the same as cheering for someone to be intentionally murdered.
Really? That’s what you got from my comment, that I was making a federal case out of it? Seriously?
Where has anyone suggested this?
Well someone seemed to be feeling generous towards a stabby criminal
I’ll do it.
None of them. It’s not okay to murder any of them.
FWIW the Nassar-case-specific Pit thread was revived today so additional and/or more focused venting can also happen there (never enough venues).
I was trying to be polite.
For me personally I think spending your life in prison is a more fitting punishment than death, so I tend to prefer life consequences to death ones.
And this is the stabby criminal’s greatest (attempted) hits:
A person familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast that the inmate accused of stabbing Nassar 10 times is Shane McMillan, who has a history of convictions for other prison attacks.
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Court records show that McMillan was convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a Louisiana federal prison in 2006 and attempting to fatally stab another inmate at a Colorado supermax prison years later.
OK if that is so then add to the stupid MFers the prison management who act like they believe this time around Mr. Stabby McStabface will have given up the shiv habit for real.
Plastic surgeon who filmed herself performing surgeries on TikTok loses her medical license.
Rep. Eli Crane has a message for you “colored people”.
“My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people, or Black people, or anybody can serve, okay?” said Crane. “It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, any of that stuff.”