Unfortunately, Ozarkgal, if we subject these horrible people to cruel and unusual punishment it makes us no better than they. I think we all agree that returning our society back to the dark ages, as some ridiculous cultures around the globe seem to desire, is not in our best interest. I say, after a fair and expeditious trial, execution is the only answer. We have no use for them and they have given up the privilege of living.
Ah, I see we have encountered a fork in the road ...
Lemme see if I can 'splain my way of seeing things like this, and maybe you can understand why I feel the way I do.
"Cruel and unusual" is what those three brothers did to those girls. THEY made the first move in the "battle", and
they decided the rules of engagement. Therefore, I don't see how it lowers us down by giving the same back to them.
Something I always taught my self-defense students: when you deal with street scum, you have to BECOME street scum. You don't sit there astride your high moral horse, thinking you're better than them and refusing to react - you deal with them THE ONLY WAY THEY UNDERSTAND - on THEIR level.
They WILL fear
that.
We already ARE NOT better than them - we're all humans, right? What will a trial accomplish, except give fuel for the next whackadoo that wants to do this, or worse, give some shyster lawyers the opportunity to get them off? They'll claim that these poor men were themselves abused as children, and they're only acting out that abuse now, and they aren't responsible for what they did, and they need help ...
... and they will laugh into the cameras ...
... and our tax dollars will just keep getting burned up in the process ...
MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THEM. Do something to them so horrific, so unforgettable, so cruel and unusual, that the public NEVER forgets what happens to sub-humans like this. Draw them and quarter them, and put the resulting pieces in the four corners of Cleveland. It worked for piracy in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it will work again.
We seem to differ only in
methods - our
end results are the same. You want to treat sub-humans as humans; I want to treat them as the low-level organisms that they are. I'm sure we can come to an accord on this matter.
Yours in Punishment,
Marquis de Phillipe