Allow me to Defend every Criminal out there

[wfz]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

wfz said:
I feel that people see the situation like this: A man does something terribly evil to a helpless woman. After years of torment, she saves herself and kills him in the process."

You could argue that "A man had a terrible upbringing and as a result did what he had to do to feel control and "save" his life, which resulted in severe pain for a woman. That woman had a terrible experience and as a result killed him to bring back control to her life and save herself."

Making their situations seem very similar. In this case, however, I'd side with the woman. It's much more acceptable to take revenge out on those who have wronged you than to spread that wronging to more innocent people.

Just remember that while the woman killed him to take revenge and to clear her mind, capturing her was his revenge for his miserable childhood (well, and to clear his mind).

Both of them did something wrong because of previous experiences. Her experience just happened to be more recent and more visible to the public.

That "visible to the public" point is a really strong point.

But I thought I addressed the rest of that with my post. He was reacting to "save" himself from a terrible past, and she was doing the same. But as I said it is much more acceptable to take revenge out on those who have wronged you than to spread that wronging to more innocent people. Socially speaking.

 

Interesting idea, though. If his parents had wronged him so badly, and he tied them up in his basement and made them suffer in revenge for all they had made him suffer through, and then they escaped and killed him in the process, it is likely that the public would have sided a bit more split between the sides, but mostly side with the parents. I believe that's because his upbringing, as you said, was invisible to the public while this wasn't.

 

Regardless of what your past has done, if you are out of it now, you are expected to grow and be more responsible as a result. Check this out

 

1) He was tortured as a child but is now out of it, grown up. He then finds this woman and the story ensues.

2) This woman was tortured and *while getting out of the torture* she kills him

 

See the difference? He was already out, and now society expects him to act maturely and responsible. That woman wasn't causing him torment, his insecurities and past life with his parents were.  In the case of the woman, the crime she committed was in an effort to escape the current torment from the person directly giving her the torment.

 

Hence people side with the woman.

Had the man killed his parents while escaping their torture in his childhood, he would likely not be looked down upon.

 

EDIT: DAMN you Jay for looking at my screen and posting my point before I could finish my post. :(