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Understanding or stone thrower?
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 283326" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>This has been a really interesting discussion. One thing I've been thinking about is how our perceptions have changed. Has anybody read John Updike's <em>Rabbit, Run </em>lately? I'm not sure when it was first written but it was quite a few years ago. In the book, if you haven't read it, his wife, in a drunken stupor, ACCIDENTALY drowns their baby in the bathtub. In the book she was an object of pity and there seemed to be no legal repurcussions. I couldn't help thinking as I read the book just this year that if that happened now, she would definitely be charged with something. There would be a trial and she would probably do some time. I don't know if that means we are becoming more aware of these things happening or if it means we are becoming more vindictive. As a mother, I can only believe that if you are even half-way normal, that after something like that nothing the legal system could do to you would be as bad a punishment as you would inflict on yourself for the rest of your life </p><p>Of course, that is far different than somebody who abuses a child on purpose. I still don't believe in the death penalty but if they could inflict the same bodily injury on the perpetrator as he did on the child, I might vote for that. I think one reason some people are willing to accept the death penalty is that our system sometimes SAYS that somebody is getting a life sentence and then we hear that in a few years that person is eligible for release. As far as something like that is concerned, I think a life sentence should mean what it says. If that were enforced I think there would be fewer people in favor of executing people. Just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 283326, member: 135"] This has been a really interesting discussion. One thing I've been thinking about is how our perceptions have changed. Has anybody read John Updike's [I]Rabbit, Run [/I]lately? I'm not sure when it was first written but it was quite a few years ago. In the book, if you haven't read it, his wife, in a drunken stupor, ACCIDENTALY drowns their baby in the bathtub. In the book she was an object of pity and there seemed to be no legal repurcussions. I couldn't help thinking as I read the book just this year that if that happened now, she would definitely be charged with something. There would be a trial and she would probably do some time. I don't know if that means we are becoming more aware of these things happening or if it means we are becoming more vindictive. As a mother, I can only believe that if you are even half-way normal, that after something like that nothing the legal system could do to you would be as bad a punishment as you would inflict on yourself for the rest of your life Of course, that is far different than somebody who abuses a child on purpose. I still don't believe in the death penalty but if they could inflict the same bodily injury on the perpetrator as he did on the child, I might vote for that. I think one reason some people are willing to accept the death penalty is that our system sometimes SAYS that somebody is getting a life sentence and then we hear that in a few years that person is eligible for release. As far as something like that is concerned, I think a life sentence should mean what it says. If that were enforced I think there would be fewer people in favor of executing people. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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