paintedlady said:

Let the firestorm of "How could you?!"s begin but I don't understand how a parent could NOT kill to protect their kids.

I would do ANYTHING to protect my kids and keep them from harm. ANYTHING.

hokie said:

YOU get it. Others...haven't a clue.

MuthaFunka said:

Dude, there's a vacancy in heaven, they just fired God, maybe you should consider sending in your resume.

I have 3 sons, now you tell me how killing someone who committed a crime would either help the one that was the victim OR the other 2? IF my son would become the victim of molestation, maybe I wasn't doing a good job being a parent anyway and you should consider taking my kids away from me.

You killing that person is about VENGEANCE, and no way in hell is it about PROTECTION. PROTECTING your child = eliminating RISK . RISK is about CHANCE, the CHANCE of THAT PARTICULAR PERSON being able to molest your child again is a lot more smaller than the chance of you winning the lottery in the following dozen lifetimes.

Sure, I don't get it. I'm fine with that.

hokie said:

you mean "I would do ANYTHING to vindicate the wrong that was done to my kids."

this is vengeance, not protection.

BlueZebra said:

No. What I am saying is that if I were in a situation and I thought my kids were going to be hurt or killed or kidnapped I'd kill in order to prevent it.

After the fact I don't think I could. I can't say for sure. I thank God have never been in that situation and hope I never am.

I think I'd WANT to kill someone after, but don't know that I could.

hokie said:

apparently you don't get it. Muthafunka, this girl needs a teacher, stat.

BlueZebra said:

I don't feel like defending myself. If you don't agree it's fine. I am pretty unpopular today apparently.

BlueZebra said:

I already have Jr. God experience...You think I have a shot?

Hey, if you can't handle my view on this, then that's your problem, not mine. But you already admitted that you WOULD do ANYTHING - WHICH INCLUDES KILLING - to protect your child, so I STILL don't know why you're all hyped-up about this. So, what's your point to all this? It's senseless.

hokie said:

No, I agree with you. I'd do anything to PREVENT my kids getting in harms way. Killing the molester after the facts doesn't count as protection to me, and obviously you're on the same page.

But apparently we're wrong

BlueZebra said:

And not only do I have Jr. God experience, I'm also qualified to teach as well.

BlueZebra said:

OK...I spent last night at the hospital. Long story. Lots of sickness and not a lot of sleep. Brain malfunction.

Your sig is a message to your SS isn't it?

MuthaFunka said:

and here I was thinking that I could be right this one time ... Obviously not on the internet

hokie said:

no it's not she's a very sweet orger !!

hokie said:

Please. Don't let ANYONE shake you from your beliefs, especially anonymous online personas. If they have an issue with YOUR BELIEFS, then that's their fuckin' hang-up, not yours. I could give a fuck about how some random online personas view me. It ain't that deep. Ever.

BlueZebra said:

You know as a Jr. God I can't possibly allow that!

MuthaFunka said:

BlueZebra said:

I haven't passed the exam to answer prayers yet...that's still the Big Guy's job.

paintedlady said:

No, you can't. Either your god is omniscient (knows everything that has ever happened and will ever happen), OR you can have free will. Not both. If your god knows your future when it creates you, then in deciding to create you, it decides to create everything that you will ever do.

In this guy's case, that would include raping his daughter.

"With God all things are possible" is one of those lines of bullshit that people rehearse to themselves in order to shut their brains off. Religion REQUIRES you to decide to be stupid.

I think I sleep better in a world where there are no gods but there are a few bad people, then I would in a world where there was the sort of god who would create bad people.

As for those of you who think this guy should be burned at the stake and any of us who disagree are amoral freaks, I'd like to suggest that the proper role of the criminal justice system is not punishment. It's isolation.

Punishment implies a moral judgment that I do NOT want my government to make. I do not want to live in a nation that uses death as revenge against its citizens. I want to live in a civilized nation that removes dangerous people from the rest of us so we can go about our lives. What criminals "deserve" is irrelevant to my life, as I'm not in the business of making that kind of judgment, and should be irrelevant to my government.

Hearing about this kind of thing makes most of us furious, but it doesn't HAVE to make us into savages.

MuthaFunka said:

The "Take them out back and shoot `em" part.

Doesn't say what you'd do, just what you'd like done. I asked what would you do.


Has she gone on record to say this? Does she want them dead?

tackam said:

I think folks are putting their child/children in the poor girl's situation and using those emotions to decide what action to take. Not the best way to make a rational decision. IMO.

tackam said:

Amen!

mcmeekle said:

No, you missed that point as well: That was how "I" would see it - her living in constant fear of them ever getting out.

razor said:

People decide who live and die everyday.

Jail is not suffering enough for me.

tackam said:

I have no problem with anyone that disagrees with me. I just have first hand experience and I would like people to know where I got my point of view on this and at least try to understand why I feel the way I do.

MuthaFunka said:

Jury Judge and God . . .

MuthaFunka said:

WOW!

tackam said:

So much better than being raised by homosexuals or lesbians . . .

June7 said:

Isn't that what parents do best?