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Originally Posted by Deuces McKracken
So ignoring the seriousness of the response and focusing on the criticism of the killer...It's almost seems like only a token acknowledgement that the dude is ****ed up though, like while other people are saying the guy is evil, terrorist, etc., this NC flounce douche is saying he has ****ed up hair, as if to say he's not that ****ed up. If you know you have to condemn the act but you want to express opposition to outrage, via contrast, by making a trivial, token objection, wouldn't you say something like that?
I'd say that the fact that he shot up a bunch of black folk is the actual problem.
That he has bad hair (poor personal hygiene or failure to attend to personal appearance is fairly a reliable sign of being a nutter) is just a goofy way of saying that the dude is ****ed up.
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You don't know flouncy's posting history and perspective on ethnic violence.
I don't really care about his posting history or perspective. I just want to say what I want to say.
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Originally Posted by Deuces McKracken
That is a pretty small minority opinion if it's incorporated into your general philosophy of justice, as in if you think that not guilty by reason of insanity is never a valid defense. I've gone back and forth on that myself and I think it is tougher to argue against that minority position that most people might think.
People are generally too forgiving if they can understand why someone did something, imo. There is ALWAYS an explanation (whether known or unknown) for why someone is a piece of **** broken human being (nutter, beaten as a child, daddy didn't give enough hugs, chemical imbalance, wife just left him, boss called him mean names, was taught the wrong things, was made fun of in school for halitosis, is somewhat mentally ******ed, whatever).
We put down bad dogs even if they were abused as puppies. I'm ok with feeling bad about it. I am also ok with retraining programs. What I am not ok with is forgiving some (because we have a known explanation) and not others (because we fail to understand).