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Anonymous ID: 60ba08 July 1, 2020, 2:21 a.m. No.9809810   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9817

I constantly go back and forth between wanting prison and wanting the death penalty for the pedovores.

I can see both sides. When I'm feeling all zen, usually if I'm stoned, I think of how much more heroic and and noble it would look to history if they were simply locked up forever. Good and noble people capturing violent monsters, trying them in a court of law, by the books, and putting an end to their evil by removing them from society, all without succumbing to hatred or revenge. It's such a goody-good ending to it all that it would be morally unassailable even to historians centuries from now. And in a way it would just feel right.

But I also have moments of intense rage and hatred when I want them to have their lives taken from them against their wills. Moments when I remember what it was like to be abused as a child and to feel betrayed by a system that doesn't care and only protects abusers, and then think if how much worse these kids have suffered and on what a massive scale it was allowed. In those moments, I want the gavel to come down with a sentence of death. Barr has already set the precedent.

It scares me because I worry that I'm just driven by hatred and darkness when I feel that way, which is admittedly more often than not. I worry that I just want sublimated vengeance. But then I wonder if prison is sufficient justice or a sufficient deterrent against this ever happening again. What would scare a monster who's willing to sell and murder children? I'm not even sure lethal injection is enough from that angle.

I know it's not even our place to speculate or decide on sentencing. We're not the jury or the prosecutors. But the justice system should reflect what the American people think, and I think Barr believes that too.

I know we're far from the end and that we have other stuff to worry about right now, but what do you think, Anons?

Anonymous ID: 60ba08 July 1, 2020, 2:29 a.m. No.9809840   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9809817

Barr sent a clear message with the executions of 4 child-killers, and I think he specifically appealed to the will of the American people.

>"The American people, acting through Congress and Presidents of both political parties, have long instructed that defendants convicted of the most heinous crimes should be subject to a sentence of death,” said Attorney General William P. Barr.  “The four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws.  We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/executions-scheduled-four-federal-inmates-convicted-murdering-children

I think that, the way things are supposed to be, the justice system is meant to be a just and legitimate outlet for the outrage people feel towards the worst criminals. It's not the same as vigilantism.

I just become frightened of how much I truly hate these people sometimes and of the sick fantasies I have directed at them. It can't be healthy or noble to feel this way.

Surely there have been rescues. I wonder what the children want done.