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This assault is clearly all Eminem's fault.
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His mom is Kim Basinger, which somehow lessens the repulsion.
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January 25, 2004, 22:39
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Neither rape, incest nor assault (the three crimes commited here) are capital crimes today, so no, the kid does not "deserve" death.
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Is and should are different inquiries.
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So which of those do you think should be capital offenses?
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January 25, 2004, 22:46
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From an intellectual sense, I don't think that rape should be a capital offense. Still I want to say kill him ot piss of the effete Euro types who never get to fry their criminals.
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January 25, 2004, 22:49
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Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
The only way I can see this happening is if the kid wanted revenge for being sexually abused (not nescesarily by same mother).
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I was thinking the same thing. A lot of times inept or bad parents can put their children into situations where they are abused, and then compound their error by not noticing, listening or believing their children after the fact. I have a good friend whose mother still goes back and forth. Sometimes she apologizes for leaving her daughter in the hands of her father who raped her repeatedly when she was really young (and did the same thing to her older sister for many years). Other times her mother denies that anything happened at all, and tells her daughter she is crazy and making things up to get attention.
I know this girl's history pretty well, and it should have been obvious to anyone who wasn't really invested in denying it that she had been abused. She acted out at such a young age (five years old), repeatedly. Anyway, if this kid's mother were something like this I can see how the anger would make such a violent act more likely, and perhaps more appropriate than we'd like to admit. And of course if his mom did abuse him directly, then we are simply talking an eye for an eye.
Of course he simply might be mad as a hatter, or was so wasted on drugs that his judgement ceased to exist.
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January 25, 2004, 22:51
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Oh, and rape isn't as bad as murder, and I don't even support the death penalty for murder, though I do support it for treason and acts of illegal warfare blowing up office buildings full of people and the like.
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January 25, 2004, 23:13
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So which of those do you think should be capital offenses?
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I don't support bright line tests for what should and should not be a capital offense. I believe that rape should sometimes be a capital offense, if in the committing, the person demonstrates that there is no way he can be rehabilitated.... like in this case.
And assault as well, such as someone who tortures but does not kill (which would aggravated assault).
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January 25, 2004, 23:20
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what the!
This is the first thing I see when I return to Poly. hmm
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January 25, 2004, 23:21
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It's a sign, Diss  .
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January 25, 2004, 23:29
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I don't support bright line tests for what should and should not be a capital offense. I believe that rape should sometimes be a capital offense, if in the committing, the person demonstrates that there is no way he can be rehabilitated.... like in this case.
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The kid is 15. Why do you think he can never be rehabilitated? And that's what life sentences are for - if the kid can never be rehabilitated (and there's absolutely no reason to believe such a thing with what we know).
It's a sad justice system that throws away peoples' lives because it's too goddamn vindictive and lazy to try rehabilitation.
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January 25, 2004, 23:29
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I'm not sure I want to know what that sign is.
Anyways is this story true? I'm having trouble believing it.
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January 25, 2004, 23:30
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The kid is 15. Why do you think he can never be rehabilitated? And that's what life sentences are for - if the kid can never be rehabilitated (and there's absolutely no reason to believe such a thing with what we know).
It's a sad justice system that throws away peoples' lives because it's too goddamn vindictive and lazy to try rehabilitation.
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rehabilitation is a waste. But I don't think that rape should be a capital offense.
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January 25, 2004, 23:31
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I mean heck the kid was on a break from reform school! rehab is not working! This is like proof of that.
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January 25, 2004, 23:32
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A waste to whom?
Prisons are by and large a waste, and execution is almost always a waste.
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January 25, 2004, 23:32
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I think rape should have higher punishments than murders.
And child sexual assault should be highest on the list.
What I don't understand is why raping a child has such a small penalty. Just recently someone got sentenced to 10 months for such a crime. Well it wasn't rape, but it was inappropiate touching I think- they never give the details.
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January 25, 2004, 23:33
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rehabilitation is a miserable failure. Ask your texas counsel, lefty.
And dude, the irony is you are advoacting reform and he was going to reform school!!!!
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January 25, 2004, 23:34
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Why should rape have a higher punishment than murder? I'd certainly rather be raped than killed.
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January 25, 2004, 23:34
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Why should rape have a higher punishment than murder? I'd certainly rather be raped than killed.
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January 25, 2004, 23:44
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rehabilitation is a miserable failure. Ask your texas counsel, lefty.
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It isn't tried all that often. Our prisons are just about the farthest thing from rehabilitation there is. The Euros, for instance, are much more successful at attacking crime through a far less brutal justice system. I'd say that vindictive "justice" is a miserable failure.
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And dude, the irony is you are advoacting reform and he was going to reform school!!!!
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Why is ironic? What's the character of this reform school? What sort of things does it emphasize (say, psychological counseling or harsh discipline)? How long has he been attending?
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January 25, 2004, 23:51
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The kid is 15. Why do you think he can never be rehabilitated?
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Because the act is so heinous, I don't think the kid can be rehabilited. He should know right from wrong by now.
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January 26, 2004, 00:00
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That he obviously has major psychological problems doesn't mean that he can't be rehabilitated.
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January 26, 2004, 00:02
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I don't think he can be rehabilitated. But I do think that there is a chance, he will change his ways. Won't have anything to do with reform or rehabilitation or interventions.
As far as the crime, I don't think death would be a fit penalty. He should face a harsh penalty for hwat he did. But not death.
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January 26, 2004, 00:04
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It isn't tried all that often. Our prisons are just about the farthest thing from rehabilitation there is. The Euros, for instance, are much more successful at attacking crime through a far less brutal justice system. I'd say that vindictive "justice" is a miserable failure.
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Maybe they just have less heinous criminals there. It's a multivariable function. Can't take a difference and assume it was a partial.
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January 26, 2004, 00:07
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Compassion changes people far more easily than violence.
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January 26, 2004, 00:10
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Compassion changes people far more easily than violence.
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Only if they are willing to accepting that compassion.
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January 26, 2004, 00:11
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Maybe. but the issue is do people change? you've shifted from efficacy in general to preferred methods.
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There is one option we've over looked although I'm a bit loath to suggest it on a site with the male to female ratio of this site but what about castration? Would this not be an option so that he wouldn't committ violent sex crimes again. If he's done it once would he not do it again? He obviously doesn't have any regard for the issue of rape if he can perpitrate it on his mother.
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January 26, 2004, 00:14
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That would be cruel and unusual punishment.
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January 26, 2004, 00:16
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As opposed to raping your mother
Yeah ok.....
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January 26, 2004, 00:20
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As opposed to raping your mother
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Raping your mother was not punishment for anything. It was a crime.
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January 26, 2004, 00:33
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Only if they are willing to accepting that compassion.
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Was responding to GP's idea that if he's going to change, it wasn't going to be from an attempt at rehabilition.
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Maybe they just have less heinous criminals there. It's a multivariable function. Can't take a difference and assume it was a partial.
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Well, do you know of a good model for a society's crime rate? I don't think it's a coincidence that places with high levels of incarceration also have high levels of violent crime. If being "tough on crime" is supposed to decrease it, I don't see any evidence to that effect. I'd also argue that most of other reasons why places like the US have such a high violent crime rate (such as poverty and drug prohibition) are endemic of this ideology that it's better to deal with people through violence than compassion.
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