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Barbaric attitudes in the UK
Slarti Bartfast
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On Facebook yesterday I read some comments relating to the Anne Maguire murder and also a story about a father torturing his daughter's alleged rapist to death after inviting him round for dinner.
By and large the comments were pretty barbaric, calling for various forms of torture and death to the murderer and alleged rapist, including beheading. It was pretty chilling actually.
While I understand that some people post for effect, lots of the comments came from 'ordinary looking' middle aged people who don't fit the troll stereotype, and of course the vast majority are posting under their real names for all their friends, family and children to see.
It makes me wonder if it is only the law that separates our supposedly civilised society from the more barbaric parts of the world like some areas of the middle east. In other words, if it were not illegal, would the majority of us be part of crowds stoning and hanging people or chopping their hands or heads off? It seems alien to me that people can join ISIS, for example, and be so cruel and brutal, but is that what is under the surface of civilised society?
By and large the comments were pretty barbaric, calling for various forms of torture and death to the murderer and alleged rapist, including beheading. It was pretty chilling actually.
While I understand that some people post for effect, lots of the comments came from 'ordinary looking' middle aged people who don't fit the troll stereotype, and of course the vast majority are posting under their real names for all their friends, family and children to see.
It makes me wonder if it is only the law that separates our supposedly civilised society from the more barbaric parts of the world like some areas of the middle east. In other words, if it were not illegal, would the majority of us be part of crowds stoning and hanging people or chopping their hands or heads off? It seems alien to me that people can join ISIS, for example, and be so cruel and brutal, but is that what is under the surface of civilised society?
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This exactly, but if anything I would rather he die in prison from something like old age. Life should mean life.
Yet apparently that isn't good enough with facebook pages set up with normal everyday people who and I quote wanted him "hung drawn and quartered while he was alive and cutting his stomach out in front of him". I do think you are right, these people are closeted nutters who thankfully fear jail enough to stay just about on the right side of the law.
I agree.
How many Muslims have been prosecuted for preaching hate though?
How many non-Muslims have been prosecuted for preaching hate though?
Not as things stand, no, but I wonder how they would behave were the circumstances more accommodating.
What has that got to do with the UK. It was in Delhi, India.
"Give me five minutes in a room with him"
"That sicko wouldn't be able to walk after I'd finished with him" >:(
etc
Uhuh. Sure thing, sweet cheeks.
Why can't they ever think up anything that doesn't sound like they're going to **** them?
The event was in India, I'm talking about the reaction from the UK public. What made that particular example stand out for me was that, according to the BBC article I read, the girl had fallen pregnant and told her father she had been raped so it hadn't been proven, it was just a single allegation (I also wondered how likely it was that a rapist would go to dinner with the father of the girl he raped, but the truth will likely never be known now). That it was unproven didn't affect the gleeful responses to the act of torture though. It occurred to me that someone so inclined could commit a murder, concoct a back story like that and be applauded by the public.
A lot of people on Facebook will likely be using their emotions to type on the keyboard. The typical pitchfork mob.
He planned it so doubt that would cover it.
I do understand the father but he shouldn't take the law into his own hands.
Not necessarily. Not everyone responds in the same way.
I have no idea about the reaction in the UK as i've only read the comments section of the DM.
Digital Spy is moderated whereas Facebook generally isn't.
I used it to show that it was just my opinion rather than a statement of fact.