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Post by inatent on Jun 17, 2004 9:26:09 GMT -5
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Post by HA on Jun 17, 2004 14:21:02 GMT -5
This is a VERY serious matter to deal with short aphorisms like the one mentioned by inatent. In fact the parents of the children, two of the survivors and numerous other witnesses were much more mature than that ... in their testimonies and declarations.
I please ask inatent to never repeat such simplistic approaches on this issue ...
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Post by Ed on Jun 18, 2004 14:33:47 GMT -5
And what "simplistic approaches" are you referring to?
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Post by HA on Jun 19, 2004 3:09:29 GMT -5
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Post by inatent on Jun 19, 2004 19:43:41 GMT -5
I didn't mean to offend anyone. I am still wondering whether, when such crimes strike a person directly in a society otherwise opposed to the death penalty, whether those most affected might see things differently. I know it happens here. The reference to "simplistic approach" I do not understand. inatent
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Post by HA on Jun 20, 2004 3:31:07 GMT -5
This is the problem.
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Post by Guarp on Jun 20, 2004 6:48:12 GMT -5
I don't see your problem either. I know the Dutroux-case in Belgium is very complicated and a lot of people got to believe in a country wide network of pedophiles. At a point, even government officials were suspected to know about it. But in the end it turned out that terrible mistakes have been made by many institutions. However, evidence of a wider "network" has never been found. I can't find words for these horrible and despicable acts of these people who are now convicted for their crimes. So I can understand the wish for capital punishment when you look at Dutroux sitting there behind this glass wall in the court room. Still, death penalty isn't a big issue around here. We have "big governments", but we all feel that it's not just when governments have the right to take lives. Maybe we feel different in this particular case, but overall the death penalty is not effective, is discrimanatory and not worthy of a well developed civilized nation.
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Post by HA on Jun 20, 2004 9:30:53 GMT -5
I never heard the parents of the assasinated children request the death penalty in this (or other cases). And I do not think that in the USA which has the death penalty, such crimes (or even worse) do not take place.
I think inatent's point is simplistic because it is not the death penaly menace that can stop psychopaths from commiting such crimes - and society needs better ways to treat with such complicated problems than an electric chair or a firing squad.
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