things i saw...

[Magoo]

thats a lot of watery reasons excuses to continue doing nothing. too hard?

what age old 'lock em up and throw away the key' solution is that?
to my knowledge its been years since we successfully prosecuted and punished a child murderer. hardly a whisper of it after each child is buried.
our criminal justice system has thus far been impotent to act on any of this. each year it gets worse, but we refuse to apply the system as it was intended, of course it doesnt work. we wont let it.
every person reaches a point where they have to choose to do right or wrong. i cannot accept that this choice is negated by poor upbringing or trauma, its a choice, not an instruction. if the murderers life was so traumatic why are we learning about it in retrospect? should not the parents been made to answer to that? but we leave the offender and the root cause of the offender to carry on with their sick lives.

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it would seem there are those that find our deplorable world beating statistics acceptable.
that think the approach we've taken thus far works, and change isnt necessary.
that would continue to blame abstract historical events as the cause, nullifying the need for change, blaming the previous generation and letting the ether inhabiting apologists and academia influence outcomes to which they have no claim..

i dont see much room for compassion when someone has killed a child with their bare hands.
ive even less compassion for someone who defends, minimises or accepts it as part of life.
we are the country that produces more child murderers in our world than all our peers, and thats ok.

There's little point in handing out ever more severe punishments when they simply do not work; they don't prevent these types of crimes from continuing to happen & that surely is the desired eventual outcome when dealing with this kind of crime.

Find the causes & fix them, that old saying : 'An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure' makes a good deal of sense when it comes to crime, & especially crimes against children.
I've yet to meet anyone who believes our stats on child murders are in any way acceptable.
We very seldom if ever, hear of the lives of those who later commit this type of crime - or at least, not until its far too late to attempt any move to change things. Really, this is something which can't be fixed quickly & we will eventually have to understand that rather than expecting to solve the problem in a couple of months, or even a couple of years.

why have we been for years and continue to be among the worlds worst then? year after year?
the only difference between us and any other developed country can only be down to its citizenry.
either our unwillingness to act, or our acceptance of it as part of our culture.  it can be both, or one or t'other.
but rest assured it is us, our statistic.
we have to own that.

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i am reminded of the line repeated ad nauseum whenever i want to use prisoners as crash test dummies or
bicycle stands, something along the lines of
'a nation is measured by its treatment of the weakest members.' or some other such nonsense.
probly that bandy legged paki chap ghandi or whatever his handle is. or his mate the deli llama. but i digress
my point is this, we give more time effort and respect to criminals, who get lawyers, witnesses, a fair hearing than we do a much more vulnerable class and that is infants.

so by whom do we measure our worth as a society?.