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In reply to the discussion: Jesus fuck, can we lay off the torture and agony fantasies already? (Tsarnaev) [View all]sendero
(28,552 posts)28. i'm going to go out on a limb...
.... and say point blank I would not have killed anyone. I didn't exactly have a fairy-tale childhood but i manage to know right from wrong at least on that level.
I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and in rehabilitation. But there has to be a line somewhere. Setting off a bomb in a public place, well I'm pretty sure it crosses the line. Other than flat out insanity of the sort where you don't know right from wrong, there is no defense here and even his lawyers figured that out.
By all accounts this kid was seen to be as well adjusted, was popular and fit in with his peers well. He had everything to live for and HE chose to toss it.
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Jesus fuck, can we lay off the torture and agony fantasies already? (Tsarnaev) [View all]
NuclearDem
Apr 2015
OP
I didn't see them, probably already in my 'not you again' section of my ignore list.
freshwest
Apr 2015
#5
Do you believe rehabilitation is sometimes possible also? I like to think that
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#11
Rehabilitation has worked in Scandinavia. But they are committed to a whole social solution, not
freshwest
Apr 2015
#12
I think I may have missed the subtext of your reply to which I was responding where
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#13
RE: the 3 yr-old rapist sentencing: IMHO, the judge's reasoning is very disturbing...
jonno99
Apr 2015
#33
Or he could become the hero of radical jihadists in prison and spend his days wishing he killed more
aikoaiko
Apr 2015
#16
Being against torturing prisoners does not mean "feeling sorry" for someone.
ScreamingMeemie
Apr 2015
#8
imo, one of the best lines in the whole movie (and that is saying something)
Tuesday Afternoon
Apr 2015
#30
We are a punisher culture. Even progressives like to get their righteous rage on.
Comrade Grumpy
Apr 2015
#27