Reply #49: Sloppy thinking on display.

[mrbluto]

This I might agree with:

Any 'adult' who would create an account solely to torment a child is seriously fucked up and needs to go to prison.

This is where you frighten me:

Lori Drew created an account specifically to target this child and initiated contact with her to torment her.

She's beyond vile. Frankly, as opposed to the DP as I am, I am reconsidering it for this POS.

Really? You know this? You've personally met this person? You can assert that "Lori Drew created an account specifically to target this child..." without reservation? You know this?

Of course you do.

Because that's the only way it's justifiable for any thinking, honest person to go on to say she's "beyond vile", a "POS", and needs to go to prison.

The difference between saying "Who ever did this..." and "Lori Drew" is not insignificant. It hints at the difference between a working rule of law and the mentality that complains that "all this judge, lawyers and trial crap keeps us from putting the evil-doers in jail." (or waterboarding them all.)

The way you and others seem to often get wound-up on the punishment part of these stories and so rarely the solution effort makes me wonder about the unconscious dynamic driving what is essentially a "revenge" ethic. An ethic that I believe is counter to what the Democratic party should stand for.

Then I wonder if the poster really values the principles at the heart of a liberal society.

I have to wonder about 50% of the post on this site. At least.