Bad Santa. No, I mean REALLY Bad.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by DanaC

What you're suggesting there, is that motive and circumstance are irrelevant. I can understand that perspective. Except that you've already made clear that actually motive and circumstance do matter to you. You consider it more offensive for a mother to kill her child than a father. If circumstance and motive are irrelevent, then it shouldn't matter whether it's the mother or the father, it should offend you no more or less.

I am offended more, but I think the punishment should be the same, and that punishment should be a slow, painful, death penalty. I believe in punishing crimes, not motives. This is why I'm against all hate-crimes legislation.

It doesn't matter to me if someone kills an old lady because they want her purse, or they kill her because she's Jewish. She's equally dead and the punishment should be the same. I don't care if someone murders their kids because they want to keep them from living in a horrible world, or because they believe their kids are demons. They should die horribly and painfully for doing something this awful regardless of their reasons, mental state, etc.