Reply #148: Uh, read what you wrote again.

[moriah]

You: "I cannot believe you are trying to justify the sick bullshit going on in here."

Your wording seems pretty plain to me -- that you felt what other people said was "sick bullshit" and that I was justifying it. So, again, what "sick bullshit"?

Why did I mention four families who have lost children and went on to create organizations in their children's memories so that what happened to their children would not happen to any other child? Because someone said the case should not be discussed because it reminds the family of what happened to their child, and you said "Some people don't want to let this rest in peace. They love reopening the wound... It makes them feel good." I couldn't believe that you honestly think people were discussing what happened simply to make themselves feel good and to harm the family, but that's certainly what you seemed to be implying.

The absurdity of such a statement was compounded by the fact that some of the people who don't want to let matters like children being murdered "rest in peace" (and who you therefore accused of discussing them only to make themselves "feel good") are the very parents that you agreed with the other poster would be harmed by those discussions. The Lunsfords have followed in the footsteps of the Millers, Walshes, Klaases, and Modafferi's -- they all want what happened to their children discussed and known. They don't want it swept under the rug, forgotten, allowed to "rest in peace". So I pointed out that fact -- if you are so concerned about the family's wishes and well-being, then the fact that they want their children's stories to be discussed and learned from should carry a great deal of weight.

Also, note that I never said I wanted him to stay in jail 100 years. However, if the choice is between execution or living out the rest of their natural lives behind bars, especially in a Supermax unit as a person who received life w/o parole in Arkansas would (however short or long that natural life may be), I feel that execution is the lighter punishment, so life in prison is the one I prefer. It has the benefit of not only being harsher than a death sentence, but it can be reversed if it turns out the person was actually innocent -- you can't bring back the dead (unless you're that omniscient being we discussed downthread.)

I must say that from what I've seen you post in this thread that you appear to be taking a great deal of pride and self-satisfaction from condemning those who you consider "illogical", "emotional", "barbaric", "insane", "primitive", and "malicious". Does it feel good? Not only are you better than a murderous pedophile, you're better than people who hate murderous pedophiles! Yippee!

(edit to fix miswording on what I prefer!)