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X. Read your Kafka.
'Scuse me while Google. :mrgreen:
X. Read your Kafka.
'Scuse me while Google. :mrgreen:
It's not that you're more interested in the show. It's more like you focus on it in order to avoid a confrontation. Granted not everyone would do that. Some people would scream at him. Some would beat him up. Some would even kill him. It depends on the person. I would avoid even letting him know I was there. I'm a 110 pound woman. If I were aggressive toward a man who's known to be violent, it could get me killed.
If you come forward and tell the truth, the rapist won't be wrongfully convicted of murder. If you keep your mouth shut, he'll likely go to prison. What do you do?
Someone not getting involves in the legal process that's screwed them is the same as rape? Seriously?
Go **** yourself!
Gotcha. I'm not a brawler myself, but I hope I would at least find a way to screw up his evening, maybe get him riled enough to throw a punch at me so I could sue him.
I seem to have a gift for pissing people off.
No, I just get pissed off at someone calling me just as bad as a child rapist, because I wouldn't help a child rapist who raped my daughter, not get convicted of murder.How old are you?
or are you just lacking in social skills?
Wow....you guys try everything to justify your immorality. Yes....sitting back and letting another person get raped, killed, condemned is just as bad as if you actively did it yourself. The basic core of a human being is not just to do no harm to another....but also to ensure that you don't passively sit back and allow it to occur in front of your face. Sorry.
He wouldn't have had that problem with the alibi, because of what he did to my daughter I would have dispatched him long ago if he walked from his first crime.
No, I just get pissed off at someone calling me just as bad as a child rapist, because I wouldn't help a child rapist who raped my daughter, not get convicted of murder.
Really? You seem perfectly fine with letting a rapist get away with it. That seems pretty harmful to me.
It IS just as immoral to sit back and do nothing while someone gets raped, murdered or condemned when you can prevent it. Sorry if that makes you uncomfortable.
Where did you get that? I never came even close to saying that anything even close to that. What I have said and will say again is that two wrongs don't make a right. It is not "justice" for an innocent person to get convicted of something that they didn't do, simply because they got away with something that they did. That is like stealing something from a store and justifying it by saying...well, once they overcharged me, so its ok.
It reminds me of two situations....first the incident I talked about before, where in NYC a woman was raped in the middle of the street and not a single person called 911. Also the case that happened several years ago, where a young girl was raped at the stateline casino in Nevada by a young man who was with another friend...who, while he didn't actually do anything illegal, didn't say anything while his friend raped and I believe killed the child.
True....one does not have a legal obligation to help right a wrong....but certainly as human beings we have a moral obligation. It is not up to us to decide that an innocent person is not "worthy" of justice...and the fact that he got away with a horrendous crime does not absolve us of the moral obligation to prevent a horrendous injustice from occurring.
People can try to justify it anyway they want to try to spin it, but the bottom line is that an injustice to anyone is an injustice to everyone.
First things first: Folks, please let's get along. This is just a hypothetical that I read some years back. It's not a real case. It's not worth getting upset with each other over.
I agree with you that if you know for a fact he's innocent of the murder, you should speak up, even if he's an awful person. What I disagree with is your claim that someone who keeps quiet is just as bad as the rapist. It's human to keep quiet. It's understandable. It's just not the right thing to do.
He is not innocent. He never got punished for his crime. This is not equivalent to stay quiet when an innocent man is sentenced to murder and you could have prevented it.Someone who would sit back and allow a person to get convicted of a crime.....knowing full well that the person is innocent....and just sitting back and staying silent....is morally reprehensible.
He is not innocent. He never got punished for his crime. This is not equivalent to stay quiet when an innocent man is sentenced to murder and you could have prevented it.
This is equivalent to turning a blind eye, when you see the rapist get beaten up. A lot of people would do that. Some people would even take the laws in their own hands. That's not because they are cold hearted, but because they really care about their loved ones.
Wrong. He is innocent of the crime that he is being tried on. Two wrongs do not make a right. I stand by my post that it is completely immoral for someone to remain silent when they can prevent an injustice.