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missingthebigdog

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5. Help me understand that.

Reply to dembotoz (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 11:28 PM

Nov 2016

How is his pain helpful to you, or to anyone?

Without question, his actions were evil, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life isolated from the rest of civil society. Why is this not enough? And where do we draw the line on what crimes deserve "painful" punishment?

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