(June 23, 2012 at 8:27 am)Deicide73 Wrote: I applaud the father for removing this vile "person" from existence. I believe that if you rape and torture a child you forfeit your life. I would have done the same.
AGAIN, the reaction was UNDERSTANDABLE,
I am not talking about this guy or one single case about any given crime.
I am talking about LONG TERM "REVENGE" mentality over ANY CRIME.
What if the dad did not witness it and had merely took someone's word for it and went and murderd an innocent person?
You do know that there are gullible people who have beaten up or murdered someone because another person manipulated that person into believing the lie that they were a victim. It happens all the time. Innocent people can be physically harmed over a lie.
My co-worker had a former co-worker steal his ID. Because of that LIE my current co-worker had to deal with the arrest mess and phoney ID of the other guy. THE POINT IS PEOPLE CAN AND DO LIE.
"Street justice" is a bad mentality.
What if a kid gets a bad grade in school or simply doesn't like a teacher and that teacher hasn't done anything wrong? What is to stop that kid from making a horrible claim? If we set up society to believe without evidence you can and will get someone put in jail based on a lie.
Now back to this guy. I am sure there was an investigation, and a polygraph and the dead guy might have had priors the father didn't know about. BUT this should be the exception, not the rule.
Please stop missing the point. It is a bad idea to create a climate of fear in a population because if it is not balanced by presumption of innocence, LONG TERM, you end up with a police state,.
Until anyone reading this gets falsely accused of a serious crime, please do not talk to me about "justice". "Revenge" is not justice and emotions are a horrible way to run a system of law.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE PERSON OR ONE CRIME.
