| sapphi_snake said: In my opinion they should never have been released. They should've spent their whole lives behind bars (and no comforts and luxuries, like TV or workout either). There are situations where compassion is not a good thing, and sometimes it's better when you lack it entirely. Administiring punishment to such individuals is such a time. It's about obtaining justice for the victims, and for society as a whole. If anything, these two are better off now than they would've been had they never committed this atrocity. The fact that they were abused isn't an excuse. Most people are abused in some form. Very few act like they did. They choose to kidnapp, torture, mutilate and kill a 2 yar old boy. No one forced them to do that. They deserve no compassion. As for the identity thing, you're right. Besides that, people have a right to know who they're dealing with. One of them was convited last year for possessing porn movies of infants. Nobody in his/her right mind would allow kids near these guys if they knew who they were! They shouldn't be making all these "rehabilitation" experiments on the expense of law abiding citizens. |
if i lacked compassion, what would that say about me?
i understand that this is a very emotional case. trust me, i do. And it obviously upsets you very much, but i think that your emotions are maybe running on "full". My mum told me a few years ago that after it was on the news she would hold me that little bit tighter when we went out to the shops, watch me that little bit closer.
I don't agree with them being released. They are a threat. Imagine a young woman falling in love with one of these men, marrying him and bearing his children - never knowing his past. Its a scary, possible, thought.
You mention justice. What justice would come of essentially neglecting two children, be it in a jail or otherwise? The family of James B. will never have "true justice". But these children were deprived, rightly, of their freedom, their families and everything else. But as I already stated, to keep them in bare cells, with nothing to occupy their days, would not help anyone.
Compassion is what makes you > the other guy.
