I was molested on and off for two weeks when I was fifteen and raped multiple times when I was in a three and a half year long abusive relationship.
Lurker wrote: I ask you have been a victim of a violent crime, yourself? I applaud people who can say that they are happy to see their perpetrator walking out of jail a free man. It's so easy to say that when you haven't experienced it yourself. Man, the trauma and anguish they've inflicted last years. I understand how the soldiers feel seeing these people just locked up and have no remorse for their fellow human being.
Estel wrote:
laureanna wrote: Some of them feel uncomfortable that all sorts of inhuman things are being done in their name.
Yes, I HAVE been a victim of violent crime, multiple times, thanks very much. None of the people who did it to me ever saw the inside of a jail, even when I did try to contact the police. I still have kept my humanity.
Does that mean if I got raped again, I wouldn't fight and try to kill the person doing it to me? No. But I wouldn't go around hurting every person with a penis who looked dodgy in case they might, or might know of a plan to do so.
My answer was perfectly logical. But here's a better one for you
Quote: Torture is justified if it is a form of punishment, IMHO.
Answer: Yes. I would. Give me a logical answer why you wouldn't.
Because, on the most basic level, it is wrong.
You don't know that. You're assuming that every single person who was tortured was guilty. Prove it in a court of law. Follow the Geneva conventions.
Quote: Yes, they are humans with no concern for other human beings. I'm sorry I have no compassion for them. They are not the victims here, they are perpetrators. They should be an example to others who want to try and do it again.
Have a sense of human decency.
Just because there are people out there who have lost their sense of decency does not mean that we have to lose our own. We are meant to be civilized. We are meant to be the good guys. Once torture is used, that's gone.