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...