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In reply to the discussion: Georgia Man Who Molested 3-Year-Old Gets 220-Year Sentence [View all]Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)"Fair" is really the Code of Hammurabi or Old Testament eye for an eye type of stuff. That truly is fair. Unfair is when they cut your hands off for stealing, unfair is when you get life in a prison labor camp for speaking out against the government...those things are unfair.
He hurt a little baby, possibly screwing her up for life. So he gets to sit around in a prison cell for the rest of his life while she has to live with whatever emotional scars she carries. It is not justice and it is not fair.
Fair would be letting this baby's mother and father assault this man violently so that he too was mained for the rest of his life in ways that would affect him to the grave. However, we are civilized and we don't shit like that, and gladly so. If we truly adopted "justice" it would be the Wild West and it is pretty hard to have society going forward in a Gold Rush town.
So, please, do not condone violence inside or outside of prison for the sake of civilization, but don't sit there and bullshit me and tell me it is "fair" and that rooting for his death is "extra" punishment, because it is not.