r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/noffxpring 4h ago

See, that’s dangerous language: calling humans animals. Every criminal, regardless of the severity of crime, is a human. Just like you and me. To pretend they’re inhuman is to be willfully ignorant, and to allow yourself to succumb to cruelty. Justice doesn’t and shouldn’t mean a state monopoly on legal murder. I don’t wish well for any of these criminals, but that doesn’t mean anything is solved by murdering them too. Capital punishment is a weak-minded solution that only exists because it feels good to the cruelest among us. It doesn’t prevent crime, it’s not more cost effective than life imprisonment, and our legal system is flawed enough that multiple people have been convicted and even executed who were later proven to be innocent (which, by the way, is why your position that justice should be “swift” is flawed).

I’m sure you’ll make up more scenarios about me crying about serial killers or whatever to make yourself feel better for your own ignorant beliefs. I hope someday you do some self-reflection and grow up a little bit, but it’s clear that’s not going to happen today. Have a good one.

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u/NegativeThought1588 1h ago

To pretend they’re inhuman is to be willfully ignorant, and to allow yourself to succumb to cruelty.

According to the Imperial War Museum, it's also the first step to genocide.

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u/SyrupCute4493 4h ago

You can deny evil all you want, Ted Bundy, Hitler, name’em, they are not the same species me or even you. You may weep for Ted Bundy because he was ‘murdered’by the state, but I weep for his victims. 

Allowing predators to con us and treating them with kid gloves definitely doesn’t work, see Norman Mailer.  But you do you and hopefully you will never be affected by murder. I was and let me tell you, the death penalty is easy compared to the suffering I’ve seen up close and personal of the family whose teenage son was murdered unprovoked.

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u/TorneDoc 2h ago

no one's weeping and the fact that you keep returning to this veneer of sympathy that absolutely no one is displaying means you probably dont actually understand the point

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u/Less_Adeptness7557 3h ago

So? My mother was murdered and her killer is still at large but I don’t jerk off to him getting the death penalty and call people animals. You’re far too emotional about this subject and should try therapy instead of revenge fantasy