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10-27-2014, 05:56 AM
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Re: Lynching and Burning of Thief in Africa
I would say he was either a robber, a murderer, or both, because they put the gun and ammo on his stomach, possibly as a declaration of his crime; neat post  |
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10-27-2014, 09:31 AM
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 My Rank: MASTER SERGEANT Poster Rank:496 Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,085 Mentioned: 23 Post(s) Quoted: 1269 Post(s)
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Re: Lynching and Burning of Thief in Africa
Nothing justifies it. NOTHING. First of all, there are children right there. Is that a good example to set for children? Secondly, even if he did something horrible, most people do things for reasons. Nobody stops to think about this fact. Why does a person grow up to steal? Why does a person grow up to murder or rape? It's a lot to do with upbringing, and often mental illness as well. Desperation can play a factor. Hunger, poverty. There are all kinds of reasons that drive people's actions. Even think of pedphiles. There is something wrong in a pedophiles brain that makes them sexually attracted to prepubescent children. It's not simply impulse control issues like many would like to assert. Otherwise that means that rest of us are sexually attracted to little babies as well but just refrain from acting on our impulses. Bullshit. That's not the case. The fact the someone even has those urges means there is something going wrong in their brains and they didn't ask for that to happen. Sure, impulse control play a role, but why do they even have the desire in the first place? We don't get to select what things we desire. We just HAVE desires. We need to figure out what things are causing those desires and learn to prevent them. Crushing someone's head with a cinder block does NOTHING to help prevent it from happening again. NOTHING. Vengeance accomplishes NOTHING other than to vilify yourself. You become less humane by carrying out these acts. You certainly can't go around feeling proud of your actions afterwards. Many of these people are murdered like this for simple accusations of witchcraft, or even theft. Simple accusations. No trials. I'm not saying that I would be able to keep a civilized manner in a bad situation. If someone killed my wife or family, everything in my life is lost, and I would have no reason to go on. In that case, I might very well go nuts if I could get hold of the person that did it. Not sure how I'd handle it, but I know that acting out of vengeance is a bad way to handle it. I hope I'm never in a situation where I feel the urge. My life is good. |
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#36
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10-27-2014, 09:38 AM
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 My Rank: STAFF SERGEANT Poster Rank:897 Male Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 830 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 102 Post(s)
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Re: Lynching and Burning of Thief in Africa
Hey, come on, they gave him a fair chance to defend himself. They gave him a gun and some ammunition right at the start but he didn't bother using it ...
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#37
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10-27-2014, 10:29 AM
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 ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:110 Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 14,074 Mentioned: 44 Post(s) Quoted: 3720 Post(s)
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Re: Lynching and Burning of Thief in Africa
He knew the rules of the game before he got caught and played anyway. F*ck him. Now...why don't they do this to Boko Haram members? That's all it would take to eliminate Boko Haram. |
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10-27-2014, 04:07 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2773 Female Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 146 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 9 Post(s)
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Re: Lynching and Burning of Thief in Africa
People lose their conscience when they become part of a mob.
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