OK, I like the man, love Top gear and I think his documentaries are superb and captivating.
But this time, he’s been a pillock.

He has indeed been a pillock. I have to say that I generally avoid watching him and his boorish comments. If his comment was meant as joke it was missing one important factor. It wasn’t funny.

To quote your statement Arthur.

I do not, however, believe in state sponsored murder something that most definitely is not on the side of common decency.

In giving this opinion it seems that you side with the murderer and in some sort of way what he did was decent. Of course I know you didnt mean that.

And that is problem with selective quoting (as I’ve done) 😮

This is sentence you didn’t quote.

Maybe you could point out in any of my posts where I said he should be forgiven. I never said any such thing.

Just to clarify from another post…

He, the criminal is the one that isn’t decent – the state should be.

My point is that society should never reduce itself to the level of the criminal.

But robbing a 3 year old child of the rest of his life is decent??

The decent thing to do is rid the world of this evil once and for all. Arthur you are backing the wrong side here. People like this do not deserve to live and how can you even think he does deserve to live. What purpose can his life possibly serve now except for maybe putting him into some experimental project in which case I would let him live. Only as long as we knew he would suffer.

Huh? He, the criminal is the one that isn’t decent – the state should be. That is why state-sponsored murder should never be an option. That makes the state the equal of the criminal. Society is above the level of “an eye for an eye”. There have been far too many miscarriages of justice to allow a return of the death penalty.
As far as backing the wrong side, what do you think will happen – will he be executed or will he go to prison for life?

Where are the sarcastic replies?
Do I do not have the right to say what I think as well? I think that suggestions of punishment and torture are frankly rather worrying from allegedly normal people.

To answer the original post before the thread is hijacked by off-thread trivia and “humour”

How slowly would you kill this man? I wouldn’t. That isn’t the way civilized states treat criminals.

“Apparently” normal.
Well Arthur, I would find it very odd for anybody that would forgive such an individual. In this case, forgiveness is not normal.
The revenge feelings are also normal, as I indeed titled the thread.
As a civilised people we need to examine if this individual deserves to continue breathing. This is apparently a thought process which sets us above the animal kingdom.
I am in the camp that puts us back to common decency, improving the gene pool and killing him. OK, not necesarily slowly, that is just part of the heated debate.

Maybe you could point out in any of my posts where I said he should be forgiven. I never said any such thing. I do not, however, believe in state sponsored murder something that most definitely is not on the side of common decency.

I appreciate your efforts to debate the point though rather than the infantile posts of others. They have, in fact gone a long way to prove what I said originally. Such posts in thread about such a tragic event are frankly disgusting.

Absolutely NOT, but Arthur, unlike you, I don’t pull other members replies to pieces, which seems to be your forte on the Forum.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

Er… this is a discussion forum isn’t it?

A man commits a horrific crime and a thread is started – fair enough.
Next we read are all the horrific punishments that apparently normal people would like mete out to this individual, it then deteriorates into jokes from Monty Python WTF???:confused:
Staggering.

I like the GD forum, it’s a good way of airing ones views, and geting the general feelings of others on the topics posted.

As long as they agree with yours I guess.

This forum (among others) never fails to provide me with proof of all that is wrong with the internet. 🙁

Gary Speed was a well-respected footballer and manager of a national team. He was well-known to millions of people and as such his unexpected and tragic death is bound to be headline news.
Despite what you may think, famous and successful footballers are indeed heroes to many – they were when I was growing up and they are now. Due to their fame, they are important role models; some fall short of the mark but others, like Gary Speed, are looked up to.

Deaths in Afghanistan, while equally as tragic are also less surprising and I mean no disrespect in saying so. It is war and nearly 400 have lost their lives in the conflict but I would never disrespect the deaths of others because I hadn’t heard of them.