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 More options May 22, 12:30 pm
Newsgroups: alt.philosophy
From: meatnub <meat...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:30:48 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, May 22 2008 12:30 pm
Subject: Is it wrong to feel sympathy for these criminals?
Gangsters, murderers, rapists, serial killers, pedophiles, you-name-
it.

These were all once innocent children. But something went wrong.
Mental Illness? No parents? Abused as children? Who knows.

Of course, they are adults and most ought to know better, but they
don't, for whatever reason.

I am not a religious man, but was raised Roman Catholic. I don't
believe in god but I believe in 2nd chances and forgiveness. Except
how do you give a second chance to a rapist, pedohpile or serial
killer?

I don't think these people should be free to walk the streets. They
often disgust me for the crimes they have done, and I would prefer to
see them hanged, castrated, euthanized, whatever than to sit alive in
jail.

But then I find myself sympathizing for these people who were once
children themselves, and someone let them down. But again, that
doesn't make me want to hug them or pat them and say "there, there".

I know it's not wrong to feel however I do. But I just wonder at times
and wonder if I'm alone in the way I think or feel about this?


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