Justice is done.

[Rosso]

sounds like a story from a comic; a convicted paedophile- an ex teacher who had plied some of his pupils with drink then assaulted them- was found dead in an edinburgh back green with his legs chopped off.
I can imagine judge dredd saying 'justice it might be, legal it aint!'  personally I think the guy got what was coming to him. anyone agree?

[Generally Contrary]

Well I'm not sure.  What do we do with the leg choppers?  Presumably they are dangerous murdering psychopaths with a penchant for torture and mutilation.  Events might have made them that way, indeed, any concept of human development that acknowledges causality requires that the characteristics of people are made, or are inherent, or a combination of both.  This is not to say that there are not bad acts and bad people, but once we go down that road we need to rethink our attitude to crime, punishment and the position of deviant people in society.

[The Amstor Computer]

No, I don't agree. It's an appalling response to an appalling crime & I hope that the people who did it are found, tried and sentenced for what they've done.

Justice this wasn't.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

aye with the later two here, as a mom, and woman... yeah sure i'd love to chop the fuck up of anyone who's wrong me , or so much as looks at my girls the wrong way... however, that would just make me as bad as all the evil maggots out there. Theres other ways to deal with them, & i sure as hell ain't getting into an in depth one on this board about it.

[madgirl]

Totally agree Bou. I was seriously assaulted some years ago and am still dealing with the consequences today. The 'gentleman' got off as the police mucked up. You would not beleive the number of people that offered to make him regret his actions. I said then that if I went down that road i would be no better than him and will continue saying it.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

too right sister. Its nice to know theres folks around for you who will protect, defend or bash heads for you. but someones gotta take a moral high somewhere along the line or who the hell are we & whats the point.

[thrillpowerseeker]

woah..just a minute admin man..just because its easy not to feel sympathy for the victim in this case doesnt alter the fact that somewhere out there is running free a murdering mutilating psychopath..I'd be very afraid

[test 4 echo]

i know its not right, but i'd probably want do something similar if it happened to my kids.

[madgirl]

You may want to do some thing similar but would you? That's what seperates us from the people who do this. I must admit to really, really, really wanting to see him hurt very badly maybe even six feet under but I diddn't because that would be stooping to his level and i am a great beleiver in 'what goes around comes around'

[rc]

kIlL thhe pEeDO scKum !

[paulvonscott]

Well, I'd hate to have been mistaken by this guy.

[test 4 echo]

yes, which is one reason i cant condone this or support the death penalty, no margin for error.

[VampiraJen]

i hope the guy's having red hot pokers rammed up his arse in the depths of hell, but i can't condone one violent crime as justice for another.  But i understand why some people might, as well as one who has never been affacted by it can.

[paulvonscott]

I'd also say that someone who could cut someone's legs off because they felt morally outraged, could probably also do the same to someone else they felt a bit hostile too.  All round a cause for worry.

[VampiraJen]

i don't think the adverage person on the street goes around cutting peoples legs off, i'm guessing the leg cutter isn't quite right in the head, but sees what they have done as the right thing.