How cute, an adult still believing in fairy tails.
Sounds like the bloke got off easy if you ask me - I doubt he suffered too much - not as much as he should have if he really was sexually assaulting a four year old girl.
Father beats man to death for molesting child; probably won't be arrested
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How cute, an adult still believing in fairy tails.
Sounds like the bloke got off easy if you ask me - I doubt he suffered too much - not as much as he should have if he really was sexually assaulting a four year old girl.
You're aware that the majority of the worlds population do believe in a god/afterlife/etc yes?
If events happened as they are reported, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who would say it was unreasonable to be honest.
If you found someone raping your 4 year old daughter, you're hardly going to politely ask them to stop doing that please.
And the majority of the UK's population believe that TV shows like Xfactor, Britain's Got talent and I'm a celebrity are high quality programming.
Indeed, as long as there is proof the victim abused the child I won't complain about the outcome... the trouble is though it basically gives people in certain situations to commit murder without punishment. ie. be nice to someone you hate, invite them over for dinner and then kill them claiming they abused your 2yr old.
Exactly,
It also begs the question as to why a 4 year old was in a barn on it's own or out-side alone to be taken by a stranger.
It's also possible that a stranger heard noises & was beaten for stumbling onto something.
I would not leave a 4 year old to wonder around a farm on it's own (near a public footpath).
This should have been murder in the first degree and he gets five years probation for manslaughter. Electing judges, prosecutors and sheriffs corrupts the criminal justice system; they will all do what is popular with voters.
Wouldn't happen. I think killing someone in cold blood for almost all people would be difficult enough to be classed as impossible. Plus you just assumed that the police in Texas in this case took the father's word for it, it is possible to investigate a crime properly without arresting everyone involved and treating the victims as if they are criminals.
Is it reasonable force to hit somebody who is threatening me and I have reasonable cause to believe will hurt me or my family?
The headline is wrong, he's in court, facts will come out, and yes he will have the sympathy of the jury and depending on what the witnesses saw he may have the privilege of embellishing the threat but he has not been let off without trial, the same would happen in any modern democracy.
its not normal to kill WITHOUT reason, but give people a reason and its super easy.. infact most people will chop bits of you off before killing you very slowly if told to by their percieved authority figures....
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuremberg_defense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide
its in our nature to kill its in our nature to follow the leader and do what we are told... I think its far from the truth to say its hard to kill
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You are aware the majority of the world's population lack an adequate educational system?
Besides, just because a lot of people believe the same thing doesn't make it true. The fact most people think that a pencil contains lead doesn't change the fact they actually contain graphite. The flaw you are making is known as 'Argumentum ad populum'.
How did this stranger get the 4 year is a key question.
I don't know about you, but leaving a child alone at that age (if a place a stranger could get her, isn't normal) - it's enough reason for at least a reasonable amount of doubt.
Why some people here seem to think it's unlikely to be the dad is beyond me, try reading up on the statistics for this kind of thing.
I don't know about you, but leaving a child alone at that age (if a place a stranger could get her, isn't normal) - it's enough reason for at least a reasonable amount of doubt.
Why some people here seem to think it's unlikely to be the dad is beyond me, try reading up on the statistics for this kind of thing.
That's not quite the same as inviting someone round your house to kill them is it? You'd have to be a psychopath to do that and most people aren't psychos.
Psychopathy from the Ancient Greek "psyche", soul, mind "pathos" - suffering, disease, condition) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for the feelings of others and often the rules of society.
Child abusers are Psychopaths by that definition & are far more common that anybody would like to admit (if you look at the statistics for women reporting being abused as children).
While I've got a lot of sympathy for the guy and can't say that I wouldn't want to do similar in that situation it seems odd that he was able to get away with shooting someone dead in a clearly premeditated attack and not serve any jail time regardless of the fact the majority of people would agree that the person he shot was a complete scumbag.
Discharging a firearm in an airport in itself put members of the public and those law enforcement officers in danger...
Like the poster above pointed out - the result of that trial does seem to have been a bit populist. I'm quite glad judges and prosecutors aren't elected/political over here.
His 'inviting someone over' scenario was just that, a scenario.
Change the scenario however you want, the point was the excuse could be used to get away with a murder very easily.
It could be used, but wouldn't get very far if the police even did a cursory investigation. BTW, there's nothing to stop people doing that now - you're allowed to kill someone if using reasonable force in self defence. Invite someone round, kill them then say you were doing just that, see how far that gets you.