On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:32:19 +0100, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/1/06, Kevin Waterson, discombobulated, unleashed:
My decision is to do nothing, I am too close to the heat to make
a cool headed decision. I will await the trial and see what the
"justice" system hands out.
That is the most cool-headed decision you could have made if I may say
so.
Agreed.
We recently had a very unusual case here in the UK of the violent rape
of a 3 yr old. It made me re-examine my tolerance, and after much
thought, I decided that short of the death penalty (which we mercifully
do not have here) I would support castration as a punishment option.
I'm not tolerant of rapists, regardless of victim age. Or of violence for
that matter.
But I've seen one or two cases in the Netherlands where a single remark of
a kid was picked up by concerned parents, some social workers, the police
and developed into a huge scandal which closed down a school. After the
hysteria settled it became clear that nothing had actually happened to any
of the kids. I'd hate it if someone had been castrated in the proces. Like
death, it's quite irrevesible.
And apart from the risk of justice going terribly awry, it'll certainly
drive the last men out of the education system. There too few of them left
as is...
Sorry for the o.t. but it's a hard subject to let pass,
--
Regards, Lucas
