I didn't say it wasn't their fault for rioting.
Clearly if you are in a riot then you are the one rioting. If you murder someone you are a murderer.
I simply believe that before you condemn someone you should seek to understand the causes. It is very easy to say "they did it because they are bad people" but that still leaves the question of "why are they bad people?".
If society wants to prevent this nonsense from happening in the future then it is necessary to understand and learn from the circumstances that created it.
Simply saying "they are crims BANG EM UP" might do away with the individual perpetrators but it doesn't solve the problems which created the criminal behaviour and we will inevitably see a repeat of the riots again and again until those problems are solved.
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You could apply the same reasoning to pedophiles
In fact more so if sexual orientation turns out to be nature rather than nurture.
If someone that has cravings for sex with children releases that this is not
acceptable to society decides to get help and has not hurt anyone else.
Then more power to them.
However, if they decide to act on their urges knowing fore well that it's wrong.
Then by all means "Bang them up" and enforce the treatment that will stop them
being a danger to society.
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Yes...?
However, if the threat of prison isn't enough, then what? Prison deals with the symptom but not the cause in that case, and as teh gman says, it will simply perpetuate for decades...
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I don't have the answers to fix the worlds ill's
I can however concentrate on helping myself and those in my immediate circle.
Now if only everyone thought like that and we got all those circles to overlap slightly things would be a little better.
But that's not going to happen anytime soon.
Until then, do your best and if you see something that's wrong make sure you voice that opinion and
maybe the little cunts will take the hint.
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