(June 24, 2012 at 2:52 pm)Annik Wrote: The daughter will grow up, knowing her father ended another life. Finally, there is the deceased, who we don't have the right to execute on the street.
She is five years old and her identity is being hidden from the public. Chances are, she will have no idea if no one says anything to her about it.
Quote:You might want to think about that before you get so gleeful over a man's murder.
Holy shit. Are you serious? Link the part of my post where I seemed even remotely gleeful about a girl getting raped and a guy dying (not being murdered). Fucking gleeful. I like you, Annik, but I never, ever stand for someone misrepresenting my position in order to further emotionalize their own for effect.
Quote:I'm not saying the father should be charged or anything like that, but there should not have been a death that night.
I can agree with that. However, there was only a death, not a murder.
Quote:Not one has sovereign over your life but you. Only you can decide to take your own life and (short of accidents) no one has the right to take it from you. This is regardless of the choices that person made. No one has the right to take another's life. Period.
According to the law, plenty of people have a right to take another's life. You are taking an extremist position that does not allow for countless scenarios. If a man comes into my house and threatens the life of everyone in it and my only recourse in stopping him is killing, I fucking sure as hell do have a right to take his life and the law will agree with me. Whether extremist types agree is irrelevant. The law, the only thing that gives us rights and takes them away, agrees.
Quote:The father didn't do the "right" thing. He didn't want his daughter's rapist to die. Why is everyone so happy he did?
I don't know who is "happy." However, the man did do the right thing. He protected his daughter. He didn't intend to kill the man, so I don't count that as part of his actions, but rather an unfortunate result. Fortunately, randoms on the internet don't get to choose whether what he did was right for him. I'm sure he is not thrilled with the outcome, but given the option again would do the same thing. That was his fucking daughter.
