I will write some about my thoughts on the situation:
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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
They may be sick but they deserve it.
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"Deserve"? Do you know what they deserve? Or is it emotion that you (understandably) have, not an understanding of what anyone "deserves"?
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I have had some violent urges and thoughts in my life but NEVER acted out on them.
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I have acted out, to some small extent. By the grace of God or the Universe I did not act out in a way that harmed anyone greatly. I do not take credit for that. I was lucky.
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If an individual is sick and has thoughts of hurting children in this way, help is what they need. If they follow through with their thoughts, justice is what is needed.
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Justice? What is that? Revenge?
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We should not be judged for our thoughts but for our actions. He committed, knowingly, a horrendous crime that murdered these childrens innocense and deserves the consequences
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I know this will not be a popular idea, but I think that the idea that a child's innocence is "murdered" and forever damages the child is an overreaction that makes the damage to children worse than it already is. It tells the child that the
adults think it is something beyond the ability of anyone to cope. I was abused, but am recovering, and my "innocence" is not totally corrupted (fortunately).
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He knew he was committing a crime, and knew the penalty for that crime, and went through with it.
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know he knew? Or do you just feel he "must" have known?
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If a child gets mad and slaps his parents the parent puts him in time out.
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Not in my family! If I ever had the gall to slap my mother, she would have pounded me to the floor!
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A crime like this should not be without punishment, in any normal case they only get a slap on the wrist and back out of jail unless the crime is accompanied by murder near murder or numerous children. For once the judicial system actually worked for these children
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I don't like the idea of "punishment" at all. I agree that people who commit crimes should have "penalties" assessed against them, the degree of the penalty depending on the nature of the crime. And I think it is reasonable for society to require that they be isolated from the wider society for some period of time. I don't see that punishment ever does anyone any good, over the long term. It makes the punisher feel better for a short time. But it is misleading to think that that is an effective way to cure any problems in society. We have been "punishing" people for thousands of years: has it stopped anything?
As you can see, I get triggered by these things too.
