Thanks for sharing your experiences. It has been an interesting thread for sure.
After reading the gang rape story, I don’t know how any one of you theists can possibly justify a god’s actions of letting this go. How can a god sit there and watch that happen? If you believe in an interventionist type of god, you may want to do some serious reconsideration of that belief. How do the words omnipotent and omnibenevolent fit into that scenario? And, if you think that is god’s will, you and your god are royally fucked, in the morality department.
How is this possible in The United States? This is the shit you’d expect from 3rd world dictatorships, that don’t give a shit about anything, but themselves. But, maybe it isn’t that much different, and maybe, it has nothing to do with being 3rd world. Practically, everyone in Washington, is looking out for themselves. Yeah, they take care of their people in certain ways, but their main concern is themselves. How this can actually go on today, blows my mind. The amount of funding the prison system gets, there should be cameras everywhere. If they don’t have enough money, don’t buy the murderers multimillion dollar sports facilities; Cutbacks could be made for videocameras recording at all times. This would prevent this kind of monstrous, heinous behavior! The cops would have proof, and a severe punishment to everyone involved, should be executed immediately. I’m not a death penalty advocate because of the jury costs, and the possibly the person is still not guilty, but I’d reconsider, if this was all on camera. At the core of my morals, I feel, that this is deserving of death. Quick, cheap, painless, and over with. Slowly these fucking gruesome pieces of shit, would be eliminated, and the people that actually want to get along with each other in jail, or want rehabilitation, have a much better chance at it. You’re not going to rehabilitate many of these assholes in the prison system. They don’t give a shit. They’re supposed to be serving a sentence, but actually have control over groups of people, and it seems that shouldn’t be going on. It’s like a field day for the scum of the earth. Someone that gets brutally raped, should be able to speak up without an ounce of hesitancy or consequence. Arrangements should be made, that the victim should never have to be in another situation with them again. Make more solitary confinement cells, so they have no contact to intimate anyone. There’s cutbacks to be made, to accommodate for these situations, but I guess the government doesn’t give a fuck. Shocker..
The justice system is fucked. The prison system is fucked. Separate the violent offenders from the non-violent ones. Let the violent ones beat the shit out of each other and have sex all they want, and let non-violent ones be. Which brings me to my next point, drugs. Many of these people that are getting raped are first time drug offenders that are in their teens or early 20s. Drugs shouldn’t be illegal, period. Fuck your laws on that! You own your own body. You can make it illegal to drive intoxicated, but seriously alcohol should be outlawed, because it causes many accidents everyday. No one wants that taken away, why don’t you leave people alone if they want to smoke a joint. If they’re smoking a joint at home, should that sentence include getting raped and harassed a decent amount of the time you have to serve. If people have drugs in their pocket, they’re not a threat to society in a way that a murderer or a rapist is. I could go on and on, but I’m sure it’s been done before. It’s sad what goes on in this country..
I hope you can get out of there as soon as you can
After reading the gang rape story, I don’t know how any one of you theists can possibly justify a god’s actions of letting this go. How can a god sit there and watch that happen? If you believe in an interventionist type of god, you may want to do some serious reconsideration of that belief. How do the words omnipotent and omnibenevolent fit into that scenario? And, if you think that is god’s will, you and your god are royally fucked, in the morality department.
How is this possible in The United States? This is the shit you’d expect from 3rd world dictatorships, that don’t give a shit about anything, but themselves. But, maybe it isn’t that much different, and maybe, it has nothing to do with being 3rd world. Practically, everyone in Washington, is looking out for themselves. Yeah, they take care of their people in certain ways, but their main concern is themselves. How this can actually go on today, blows my mind. The amount of funding the prison system gets, there should be cameras everywhere. If they don’t have enough money, don’t buy the murderers multimillion dollar sports facilities; Cutbacks could be made for videocameras recording at all times. This would prevent this kind of monstrous, heinous behavior! The cops would have proof, and a severe punishment to everyone involved, should be executed immediately. I’m not a death penalty advocate because of the jury costs, and the possibly the person is still not guilty, but I’d reconsider, if this was all on camera. At the core of my morals, I feel, that this is deserving of death. Quick, cheap, painless, and over with. Slowly these fucking gruesome pieces of shit, would be eliminated, and the people that actually want to get along with each other in jail, or want rehabilitation, have a much better chance at it. You’re not going to rehabilitate many of these assholes in the prison system. They don’t give a shit. They’re supposed to be serving a sentence, but actually have control over groups of people, and it seems that shouldn’t be going on. It’s like a field day for the scum of the earth. Someone that gets brutally raped, should be able to speak up without an ounce of hesitancy or consequence. Arrangements should be made, that the victim should never have to be in another situation with them again. Make more solitary confinement cells, so they have no contact to intimate anyone. There’s cutbacks to be made, to accommodate for these situations, but I guess the government doesn’t give a fuck. Shocker..
The justice system is fucked. The prison system is fucked. Separate the violent offenders from the non-violent ones. Let the violent ones beat the shit out of each other and have sex all they want, and let non-violent ones be. Which brings me to my next point, drugs. Many of these people that are getting raped are first time drug offenders that are in their teens or early 20s. Drugs shouldn’t be illegal, period. Fuck your laws on that! You own your own body. You can make it illegal to drive intoxicated, but seriously alcohol should be outlawed, because it causes many accidents everyday. No one wants that taken away, why don’t you leave people alone if they want to smoke a joint. If they’re smoking a joint at home, should that sentence include getting raped and harassed a decent amount of the time you have to serve. If people have drugs in their pocket, they’re not a threat to society in a way that a murderer or a rapist is. I could go on and on, but I’m sure it’s been done before. It’s sad what goes on in this country..
I hope you can get out of there as soon as you can
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
