Protecting school bomb suspect:
The article seems to infer that Ryan Schallenberger is on suicide watch. In the article State prosecutor Jay Hodge says that Chesterfield County Jail isn’t able to handle a suicide threat. So basically just like the cowards he worships he’s trying to get out of his inevitable sentence.
Just another coward who thinks he can dish out the pain but can’t take it.
Man up Nancy.
You’re the king of hyperbole aren’t you?I would not cheer his death. He didn’t kill anybody.
So that just makes him worthy of not having a life anymore, not of death. Hmmm, maybe I am just unusual in that I can see life without meaning or purpose worse then death.
No, I agree. One of the reasons I believe in the death penalty so strongly is that it causes less suffering then life in prison while making a dramatic show of punishment.On a side-note, I believe that the death penalty is most effective when it is shown to all. If a potential murderer sees a man convulse in agony in the electric chair, there’s a chance that the image will be burned into his mind and serve as an effective deterrent.
anon please provide an elaboration on the quote “Psychopaths are rarely as inhuman as people believe”
I think people assume that psychopaths are, almost by definition, irrational. However, they are not. I’m sure some psychopaths are completely irrational, mind you, but they tend to have other things wrong with them as well, such as shizophrenia.People define psychopaths differently, and it is not a recognized mental illness, although there are close analogues in the DSM-IV. I, for one, believe that the most significant trait is an inability to feel remorse or such a complete disregard for the feeling that it might as well not exist. A lack of remorse does not necessarily imply a lack of understanding of the consequences of a given action, as shown by classic conditioning. If you spank a child for stealing a cookie, he or she may not understand why the action is wrong, but the consequences become clear over repeated instances of the behavior and punishment. I’ve forgotten the term for it, but there is a similar, but diminished, effect on the kid who watches his brother or sister get punished.Have I made myself clear, or, as Bierce wrote of journalism, dispelled the truth in a tempest of words?
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