Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
If you have a lesser opinion of me because I think child molesters are scum and are better off dead then there's not much I can do for your opinion of me. Sorry to disappoint you.
I think the issue that Alexanderofmacedon raised was very relevant in light of your response, DD. In his original post, his story was about a sex offender. No mention of the actual crime (I keep looking to see if I missed it) but you automatically assumed this person was a child rapist, and therefore concluded they deserved to die.

This is exactly the kind of leap of prejudice that AoM was illustrating by his assertion that we tend to over-react in these cases. It is entirely understandable for those who are parents, but it's all too easy to magnify a crime and the danger posed by someone.

Justice is necessarily blind and emotionless, lest we make awful mistakes.