[quote]pgtips wrote:
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]pgtips wrote:
[quote]Cuso wrote:
While I think that would scare alot of them away from doing stuff…
Progress?
formally brutalising will not bring higher civilisation.
Are we now morally a higher civilisation as anno 1300? Maybe.
Also… what if they get an innocent? What if, like some rape cases the stories were made up?
Sorry mate, but you overlooked the word “chronic” in my post.
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As a civilisation, I’d say we are no higher or lower morally than in the past. Morals have changed, human perception of the world around them has changed.
I didn’t overlook the word chronic, in my book the word “chronic” applied to a pedo or murderer does not hold much validity… Do you think first or second time pedo offenders should not be killed, but repeat pedo offenders should be? How many chances should they be given?
I think a pedo should not be allowed to become a “chronic pedo”. Now, I don’t know how pedos should be handled apart from the fact they need to be kept away from society FOREVER, but killing them opens the risk for an innocent getting caught in a situation they deserve no part of.
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You’re right, chronic was a bad choice of words.
If we lock away a first offender forever, are we reaching for a higher civilisation? No, we’re back in the 15th century and somebody is rotting in the dungeon. Instead we try to rehabilitate and “cure” the rotten fool, and sometimes it works. Even people guilty of a capital crime have been released after 20 years in prison, and have become useful members of society.
This is the modern world way of things, and the first prison term gives the offender and the legal system time to correct any misscarriages of justice. As Pat pointed out the life of a locked down pedo would be nasty. Good for them. But sooner or later that pedo is going to hit the streets again.
But heaven help a second offender of any crime against humanity, be it a rapist, pedo or murderer. They would be publicly burnt or fed to the lions, whichever you prefer. I myself would be making fresh popcorn for the event and would want my kids to watch.
This achieves two things, reduction of possible first offenders through shock and awe, and an added initiative to keep paroled inmates from becoming a second offender. The threat of more hard time or leathal injection just ain’t enough.
The bottom line is that the young girl in the original report was lucky (god forgive me for using the word lucky) her father was there and could help her, and the father can be consolded in the fact that he prevented anything worse (such as his daughter being killed) from happening.[/quote]
you make a good point, and the idea of a first offence = jail repeated offence = death does seem reasonable and effectively stops the problem of wrongful execution. I just feel the act of burning someone alive, and turning it into a public event is quite barbaric, and surely, if for example a crazed serial killer or pedo takes pleasure in causing such suffering, turning their execution into an event of such suffering in the sight of many puts that act of justice on a similar level to the crime.[/quote]
the option is there to treat these subhumans as the animals they are, so simply dump them in the middle of the sahara desert or african savannah with nofood or water and leave them to fend for themselves. but install a tracking monitor inside their skull so that if they somehow make it back to civilisation they can be rounded up and shot in the face.