Thieves steal 7-year-old cancer patient's PSP the day before his birthday

[thekitchensink]

Dogs Rule said:

ChichiriMuyo said:

thekitchensink said:

ChichiriMuyo said:
Your confidence in humanity plummets everytime dozens of police officers raise a collection to help someone who had something bad happen to them? There's an old saying here in the US: "Shit happens." And it happens to every last one of us, whether we get cancer or have our PSPs stolen or whatever else. But this is one of those rare moments when someone did something about it out of the goodness of their hearts, and all you can think about is the fact that there are a few bad people out there?

You are a cancer patient who is seven years old.  You don't have much that can take your mind off it.  While you are happily having a meal with your parents on the way to the hospital, someone breaks into the car, steals your bag containing one of the few things that can genuinely distract you from your illness.  Are you thinking "well, it's okay... He didn't know I have cancer..."?  I didn't think so.

It doesn't matter what the kid thinks, justice is blind.  Really good people have done more than enough to make it up to him, now it's up for the law to give the thief a punishment that fit the crime: theft.  The law cannot and should not care if the child has cancer, only that the thief broke into a car and stole a given set of things.  The thief simply stole something, and that's all he should ever be punished for. 

If we start to use the justice system to fulfill vengance rather than to serve justice then our system will be destroyed in very little time.  Use your head, kid, our courts don't exist to fulfill your petty rage.

Nice closing statement, Counsellor! (I'm vey serious.)

Please point out where I mentioned the law anywhere?  I'm saying that this person DESERVES the harshest punishment possible--not that he will necessarily get it.