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Vallus Registered User
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 397 Location: Oologah, OK
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: Disappointed With Humanity Once Again |
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http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12065027
Disappointed and angry. Not only are witnesses not stepping up to help out the police with this case but the behavior of some of these people while EMTs were trying to save this young man's life was appalling! I can certainly understand why his sister is so angry with these people. |
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Steven09 Registered User
Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 555 Location: Mojave Desert, California
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I'm...speechless... _________________ I'm called Steven, but it's not my first name!
~J.S.F. |
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Teric Registered User
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2566 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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That's unbelievably crummy. _________________ Styx: "Oh sure like flaming a dragon going to do massive damage, brave challenge there Teric." |
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2045 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Gah! This is just a new low for humanity as a whole. To heck with the dying man, just let me get my food and go ...
I really hope these 100 or so heartless b*****ds and b***hes get paid back for their selfishness. Yeah, just turn the head, walk away ... then cry foul when it happens to them!
Gah!
*deleted a lot of this post due to anger-induced typing being NSFW*
Sorry, I just can't stomach that kind of attitude.
Kellan, the disgusted old warhorse _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Cookie Registered User
Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 1690 Location: Yankee Appalachia
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Nobody cares anymore. The world is nearing it's end.
Shameful creatures be we. _________________ AKA Skoon
AKA Mogthemoogle |
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Rifts980 Registered User
Joined: 03 May 2009 Posts: 200 Location: Orbiting around a point just to left of four seconds in the future
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Lets look at it this way, if THAT MANY PEOPLE are silent, that was one mean MotherF***ER, I mean the guy must've been something AWFUL to have that happen. I mean if I'm getting shoot in broad daylight, and 100 people see with noone coming forward as a witness, I am hated and for a good reason. _________________ The Banana is in the Package. Irish need not apply for winter solstice, we are full. I'm in your operations, changing your views.
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Syrius Registered User
Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 1463 Location: The S.S. ScurvyDog, Arizona! YARR!
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:55 am Post subject: |
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I call indifference and de-sensitization _________________ Hey, Sony... IT'S PAYBACK TIME!
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Rifts980 Registered User
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:35 am Post subject: |
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Syrius wrote: | I call indifference and de-sensitization |
Like you dib the emotion? _________________ The Banana is in the Package. Irish need not apply for winter solstice, we are full. I'm in your operations, changing your views.
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tobi3B Registered User
Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 645 Location: Germany Siegen
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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*shakes his head*
unbelievable and sad _________________ Whether a black cat brings misfortune or not, depends on whether one is a fur or a mouse.
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Rabbit Registered User
Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 345 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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The American criminal justice system, like that in all other countries that I know of, is ridiculously inefficient. This is no slam on the brave, dedicated people who dedicate their lives to this work; the problem is that the task itself is a near-hopeless one. We consistently either convict no one of a given crime, or else (even worse!) the wrong guy. I don't remember the details anymore, but when DNA technology was first developed there was a big push to use it where possible to "double-check" the convictions of those on Death Row. The State of Illinois at first fought this-- totally irrationally, in my opinion-- but eventually a judge ruled that the checks should be allowed...
...and, if memory serves, roughly a _third_ of the people waiting to be executed, with all appeals exhausted, were found to be innocent.
Now, in the United States we treat death-penalty cases specially. No legal expense is spared on the criminal's side, and all possible appeals are filed. The goal of these extraordinary efforts is to be _absolutely certain_ that we've got the right man. I don't believe there is a more intense scrutiny-process in any other legal system in the world than for a death-penalty case in the USA. Yet in Illinois, with _lives at stake_, we were wrong _30% of the time_. How much _worse_ of a job do we do on routine drug crimes, simple assault, etc?
So, it's no wonder to me that people don't call the police. If the cops fail to convict or get the wrong guy, to put it in street language payback can be a real bitch.
Everyone knows that airport screening is a meaningless Kabuki dance-- we all go through ritualized motions and pretend that we're safer as a result. I personally believe that to a certain extent our current criminal justice system works the same way. Neither process does its job at all well, yet we _must_ pretend otherwise if society is to function. And when the wrong guys are rotting in the cells... Well, we can't afford to pay much attention to that either.
Worst of all, I don't see any fundamentally better way than what we already have to deal with either situation. |
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Syrius Registered User
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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Rifts980 wrote: | Syrius wrote: | I call indifference and de-sensitization |
Like you dib the emotion? |
No, as in explaining what caused the lack of action or concern for that man. _________________ Hey, Sony... IT'S PAYBACK TIME!
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Rifts980 Registered User
Joined: 03 May 2009 Posts: 200 Location: Orbiting around a point just to left of four seconds in the future
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Syrius wrote: | Rifts980 wrote: | Syrius wrote: | I call indifference and de-sensitization |
Like you dib the emotion? |
No, as in explaining what caused the lack of action or concern for that man. |
OOOOOhhhh you were callin' me out.
Well, Yes and maybe?, also I'm a non-linear thinker. _________________ The Banana is in the Package. Irish need not apply for winter solstice, we are full. I'm in your operations, changing your views.
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't that just a PC term for your train of thoght keeps jumping the track? _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Rifts980 Registered User
Joined: 03 May 2009 Posts: 200 Location: Orbiting around a point just to left of four seconds in the future
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Styx wrote: | Isn't that just a PC term for your train of thoght keeps jumping the track? |
Wait, what?
PC with an anti-PC siggy?
WAT IS GOING ON? _________________ The Banana is in the Package. Irish need not apply for winter solstice, we are full. I'm in your operations, changing your views.
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Vallus Registered User
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