RE: A person on another forum was mean to me!
June 24, 2012 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2012 at 8:24 pm by Shell B.)
(June 24, 2012 at 5:32 pm)Shell B Wrote: Oh, for fuck's sake. I probably should have known better than to speak up in this thread. The word rape or murder comes up and it becomes a slanging match between the "we're all born with rights" and the "kill 'em if you get the chance" crowds. Come anywhere in the middle and you get labeled as the opposition and people start shouting at you in all caps and taking innocuous questions regarding what the man actually fucking did as "semantics games," which is funny coming from the dude who went on a tangent about the word respect not a week ago. I'm going to start avoiding threads with certain keywords, as they seem to unlock the asylum doors whenever those keywords pop up on AF.
You want me to admit to my own word preferences? Fine, where did I ever deny that?
But that does not change that in this instance the advocates for "GOOD he deserved it" crowd, miss the long term picture.
If there were a dispute about the nature of the charge, you'd have a case. If someone tried to argue "hey what's wrong with raping a kid", then you'd have a case.
The only difference between the disagreements here are NOT that what the perp did was good. No sane peserson, not you not me, thinks what happened was good. But long term how we as a society react when people even MERELY GET ACCUSED.
Maybe you are pissed because I didn't burn the accused upon hearing it?
