Comments on: Male Child Killer Gets Prison; Female Accomplice Gets ‘Choice’

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:28:24 +0000

So you want to be immune to prosecution for bank robbery, since the proscription against that act is forced upon you by a bunch of moral do-gooders who want to tell you what you can and can’t do?

Cafeteria morality sure does make life easier.

By: The Phnom Penh

The Phnom Penh — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:50:47 +0000

Youâ€™d see aliens landing on the Mall before you hear a leftist say that Christiansâ€™ moral values should be respected.Really? Those ‘leftists’ are always calling for raiding your homes and removing crucifixes and Bibles, are they? Forcing you to have abortions? Preventing you from turning the other cheek? Making you keep your possessions instead of selling them and giving to the poor? My ‘leftist’ credentials might be a bit iffy, but I would never dream of not respecting your moral values, so long as you don’t try to force them on me. I will no more accept that than I would Orthodox Jews preventing me from eating a cheeseburger.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:01:49 +0000

Excellent point, Phaedra, and right at the heart of the problem. And yet, the left is pushing an agenda that takes even caring parents out of the equation.

By: Phaedra

Phaedra — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:32:18 +0000

I’m missing something in this entire thread. The girl was 16 years old at the time this happened. Where were her parents? Here’s the problem with this country which I think is a strong source of the abortion problem. Parents have abdicated responsibility for their children. They don’t discipline and the don’t pay attention. Kids can do whatever they won’t, and the expectation is the total lack of personal responsibility. Someone failed to teach this children a valuable lesson. That’s the tragedy.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:09:43 +0000

I’ll be a herdthinning small businessman, if it will make this easier.

Actually, make that a curmudgeonly short-tempered herdthinning small businessman who is thoroughly exasperated with circular arguments and diversionary tactics from the left. That ought to do it.

By: actus

actus — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:37:15 +0000

“actually, actus, youâ€™re not reading and responding to the right person, again. I am the herdthinner. Redbeard is the small businessman.”

I know they’re different commenters. What part of my comment assumed they’re the same people?

By: DANEgerus

DANEgerus — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:25:16 +0000

There are legal precedents that apply regarding disproportionate sentencing…

If they don’t prosecute her… he may walk on that basis.

It should be her conviction they are appealing.

By: La Shawn

La Shawn — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:02:29 +0000

Renee, you’re truly one of a kind. Thanks for everything!

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:23:45 +0000

ROFL

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:07:39 +0000

actually, actus, you’re not reading and responding to the right person, again. I am the herdthinner. Redbeard is the small businessman.
#66, Renee. He’s never seen a point he couldn’t miss

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:59:56 +0000

which is why I wonder, at what point you stop trying to save those who are determined to destroy themselves.
Which is why I embrace the schadenfreud that is the Dean chairmanship.

By: actus

actus — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:50:08 +0000

“There really is a difference, unless one is viewing the world through the distorted glass of left wing moral relativism.”

I’m not going to take lectures on morals when i’m arguing against saying that people who can’t be saved from themselves should be ‘thinned’.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:44:33 +0000

Actus said: “But I would rather point to this person as someone who could use family planning advice.”

Yeah, just as a bank robber needs financial planning advice.

And please, Actus, don’t keep confusing the punishment of the guilty with the murder of the innocent. There really is a difference, unless one is viewing the world through the distorted glass of left wing moral relativism.

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:42:50 +0000

Actually, these people need more than family planning advice, if this is their idea of the correct way to handle an unwanted pregnancy.

By: actus

actus — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:11:16 +0000

“Itâ€™s not the point. The point is the unborn children would STILL be dead.”

But that happens whether or not you charge this guy and send him to jail.

“When I hear about people like this, part of me just says â€œThin the herdâ€.”

A more sarcastic person would point to abortion as a way of achieving that. But I would rather point to this person as someone who could use family planning advice.