Every time I hear people clamoring for leniency, pissing about the "barbarity" of the death penalty, and going into the "poor criminal-as-victim" bla bla bla, I think about this kind of thing.
If a society, with it's laws, legal system, and police force refuses to provide actual justice to victims of terrible crimes and their families, then, sooner or later (because the need for "justice" is an inherent part of human psychology) victims and their families will make their own justice.
It's better that the law do it, because their is some kind of control over the law. But when the law refuses to do it's job, this is the kind of thing I'd predict would happen.
I'm with Malflick on this - what I would have done had that been my daughter would make 20 years in prison or the death penalty look like a quick trip to Walmart.
"An eye for an eye and all the world will be blind" is pleasant sounding poetic bullshit. Very few people in any population ever do anything terrible.
Have you?
If a society, with it's laws, legal system, and police force refuses to provide actual justice to victims of terrible crimes and their families, then, sooner or later (because the need for "justice" is an inherent part of human psychology) victims and their families will make their own justice.
It's better that the law do it, because their is some kind of control over the law. But when the law refuses to do it's job, this is the kind of thing I'd predict would happen.
I'm with Malflick on this - what I would have done had that been my daughter would make 20 years in prison or the death penalty look like a quick trip to Walmart.
"An eye for an eye and all the world will be blind" is pleasant sounding poetic bullshit. Very few people in any population ever do anything terrible.
Have you?
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