Honestly Tom,i can only think you are thinking religion, "Thou shalt not kill" ? If not,then we are never going to understand each other on this.
Stealing kids Christmas presents is an evil thing to do and it wouldn't surprise me in the least,if said child suffered phycological problems. But in no way will those problems be as far reaching as if they were raped. I know a young girl who wasn't even raped, she was asked to play with a mans penis when she was 8 years old. Now she's 18,and suffers anxiety,depression and bulimia. I'd be very surprised if a burglary would have had such a profound affect on her.
My only surprise with this is the fact that you appear surprised by it, many polls over the years have indicated that the majority of people would vote for a return of capital punishment for certain crimes. The fact that it was a convicted murderer who killed the child rapist is incidental, in fact I believe that if, in a months time, that murderer was himself murdered in prison then many people would applaud his death aswell. Rightly or wrongly, that is where we are.
Nothing to do with religion fella, I'm not religious in the slightest. I used to covet my neighbors ass all the time. She knows who she is.... My issue with it is that while having one less child molester in the world is inherently a good thing, the manner in which he left the world of the living is very, very wrong. You cannot possibly advocate murder as a means to an end, no matter who it's to or what they've done. Nobody outside of a lawful position has the right to decide who lives and who dies, there's a reason for that. It's very small minded to celebrate a human being murdering somebody else. In the case of the military, I think that's a little different and probably a different debate entirely, because you are legally allowed to kill for your country in a combat situation (within the confines of military law, of course). The victim was tried by a jury of his peers and sentenced to what I imagine was life in prison. He would've been tortured every day for the rest of his life, plus all the other downers you get from being in prison all the time. The family of the kid he raped probably won't get any closure from this, I assume they were hoping for him to suffer until the end of his days. If anything, the guys better off dead and they've done him a favour. So everybody is patting this guy on the back and lauding him like he's done a good thing, when really all he's done is what he was put in there for in the first place.
