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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (124840)	2/2/2001 11:31:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Are you kidding? The murder of anyone by a member of their own family (especially the murder of a child by a mother) is usually considered more heinous and horrific than a murder by a stranger for money. Ask anyone. False. It only looks that way to you because you totally and willfully ignore the extenuating circumstances present in the murder of the family member. Fortunately for us the law is not typically so ridiculous. Consider, for example, the case of the lady who drowned her two young boys by driving the car into a lake some years back….Compare that case to the murder of a Mafia informer by a paid hitman. Which is the more heinous murder? (sigh) Again, you err severely here. You’ve taken a woman who murdered her innocent children, completely ignoring the extenuating circumstances of her case, and then compared her crime with the murder of a likely criminal by another criminal. A more fitting comparison within this discussion is found between a woman who under severe anguish concerning the loss of her lover, murders her two young sons because her lover hates the boys, and a hitman who murders innocent children just like those two young boys. That is a more fitting analogy. Susan Smith’s crime is heinous, but when her circumstances are considered we find she is mentally frail and potentially dangerous (at least to those she loves), but not nearly the cold-hearted monster as the latter guy, and not nearly as great a threat to society. Most people would say the murder of the young boys by their mother. Would you disagree? It depends upon the extenuating circumstances, and not the strawmen you’ve laboured hard to build and even harder to destroy.