Thread: A father's Love and Rage

Originally Posted by Theseus

If I were in the father's shoes, i'd be too much of an ass to kill him. He'd be stripped, tied to a barrel and introduced to the horniest bull I could find. And in my mind the molester would deserve every bit of it.

I hope I never p*ss you off.

that father did the right thing, i persionally would have shot him multiple times but thats just me child molestors do not deserve to stand trail they deserve a bullet.

I couldnt agree more, the guy got what was coming to him. If put in the same position I would have done the same thing,although I might have had a problem explaining how his balls got in his mouth.

This for me is a difficult question:

a) I am dead-set against the death penalty (not in any way trying to start a debate or argument about that, just laying out my thought process here)
b) I am particularly sensitive to the impact of abuse of children as in my day job I supervise teams of researchers who research claims for serious sexual/physical abuse suffered by children

So my intellectual self finds it impossible to simply say that anyone deserves to die in the context of a state-imposed death penalty, but my gut tells me that if that had happened one of my nephews I most likely would have had the same instant reaction as that father. The result is that I find myself seeing the father's rage and the resulting death of the perpetrator as being justified, while on the other hand if he had not been killed and was rather arrested, tried, and convicted, I still would not say that he deserves to be put to death by the state.

Oh great, I'm never going to get to sleep with this one churning around in my head...

I'm with you on they one, I'm against a state imposed death penalty. But I am absolutely for the ability and the right to protect your family, including deadly force if it's warranted. I certainly feel catching the guy literally in the act would certainly warrant deadly force. I don't think any parent would do otherwise in the same situation, regardless of potential penalty to themselves, and I don't feel like they should be punished for it. But I still don't think the state should be in charge off who lives and who dies.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

...only if he had thrown him on the grill afterwards; there are some things that even a Texan won't eat.
.......yes, I love Texas, just kidding.

Dammit, you made me spill my beer

He did his community a favor. He should be hoisted upon the shoulders of his local townfolk and paraded through town. I mean that too! No telling the amount of other children were attacked by this monster, nor if he lived how many more would be either. Those that would attack children deserve neither pity nor leniency. They need a rope and a tree.

Originally Posted by EMC45

He did his community a favor. He should be hoisted upon the shoulders of his local townfolk and paraded through town. I mean that too! No telling the amount of other children were attacked by this monster, nor if he lived how many more would be either. Those that would attack children deserve neither pity nor leniency. They need a rope and a tree.

Agreed, and you know down here in GA you don't need the whole tree, just a stump out in the woods. The traditional southern punishment for such an act was to nail his "credentials" to the stump and give him a very dull knife when you leave him.

Gotta Love Texas! Although I am rather disappointed there wasn't gunplay involved. Child molesters are indeed walking turds. If I was running the world, they'd get a fair trial, one appeal and then be walked out to the courthouse parking lot and shot. The Dad in question should receive civic recognition and not criminal charges.

I remember a case in the UK where a group of righteous citizenry/self-appointed protectors of the community marched as a group to a man's house, beat down the door and tried to administer community justice.

Such a shame the plaque on the door they so righteously kicked down said "pediatrician".

There's a reason we have courts, judges, and a legal system.

James.