Not really convinced the punishment fits the crime on this one
You can get drunk and go drive your car into a crowded footpath and you'd get off with less.
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 9:47,
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Some guy in Guatemala got six thousand years in prison yesterday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17349774
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Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 9:58,
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You're the second person to post something completely irrelevant as though it justifies the case we are discussing
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 10:01,
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How is that irrelevant?
You raised the point of punishment fitting the crime, and it's a crime. Perhaps i'm agreeing with you
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Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 10:06,
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Personally I am quite happy that someone who brutally murdered over 200 people gets the rest of their life in jail.
Maybe we're talking past each other a bit here.
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 10:10,
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I agree
I just think it's a bit unrealistic to throw six thousand years at a middle aged human being
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Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 10:17,
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I was living in Hobart when Martin Bryant shot 36 people in Port Arthur.
His sentence was over 200 years but nobody was saying "This is a farce, he'll never live that long", they were saying "Good, he'll never come out of jail alive".
As that article says, it is largely a symbolic sentence.
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 10:20,
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