Penalty For Vigilante Justice. Where Would You Be?

[r_w]

I really don't know what I would do if I was in that situation.  Hope to never know.

I do know what I would do if I were on his jury. 

[tombogan03884]

Shoot, shovel, shut up.

[TAB]

I hate to say this, but he would not be alive.

[JC5123]

It really wasn't that long ago, when molesting a child would have gotten you lynched. And it would be all the local law enforcement could do to keep the community from tearing you apart. Can someone tell me, when did society start looking at these sick freaks as victims? And when did we start to feel the need to protect them?

[tombogan03884]

Apparently you didn't get the memo. No one is responsible for their actions any more. Personal responsibility is, like the Constitution, an out dated idea that is not appropriate for this "progressive" era. Every one is a victim, of their enviroment, of society, or because their childhood did not conform to the Ozzie and Harriet template.
Child molesters should still be lynched.

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[JC5123]

So is that where I've gone wrong in my life? Actually admitting when I'm wrong, and taking action to rectify my mistakes! Wow, if I had known that I wasn't responsible for my screw-ups I would be so much farther ahead in life! Of course that would be at the expense of my conscience, my dignity, and personable accountability. Doesn't really seem like a good trade to me. 

[fightingquaker13]

Apparently you didn't get the memo. No one is responsible for their actions any more. Personal responsibility is, like the Constitution, an out dated idea that is not appropriate for this "progressive" era. Every one is a victim, of their enviroment, of society, or because their childhood did not conform to the Ozzie and Harriet template.
Child molesters should still be lynched.

Here's where we part company. I'm all in favor of the hanging (or life without parole, I honestly don't care as long as they never hit the streets). I'm not so much with the lynching. A fair trial and then the gallows. What if the grieving dad had gotten the wrong guy? Wait till the system has done its work, DNA, witnesses, other victims etc., and let a jury handle it. Just make sure the law is such these guys are dealt with permenantly. If he walks on a technicality.....then its a different game. I still think you're doing your kid more good by being home to help them through it than in a cell for avenging them. As far as being on the dad's jury, I'd propose deliberating long enough to get a pizza on the tax payers and doing the crossword before coming back with a not guilty verdict.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

Yes . 

[r_w]

Here's where we part company. I'm all in favor of the hanging (or life without parole, I honestly don't care as long as they never hit the streets). I'm not so much with the lynching. A fair trial and then the gallows.

Not too many years ago a child molester would have preferred the lynching over life, there was an honor code among prisoners.

[tombogan03884]

They still have a rough time. Guy in a small town I used to live in went to prison for molesting one of the neighbors kids. Heard he complained about spending all his time getting bent over.
Served him right.