Quote Originally Posted by poobert View Post
Everyone is scared - nothing is sacred.

This I don't get - aren't we biologically programmed to be gentle to babies/mothers? Like the same reason we are hard-wired to like cute baby animals? You know, programmed so any life on this planet can continue?
Not sure how someone can override that. I think many of these criminal types are not fully human - simply reduced to basest animal life. I'm normally against the death penalty but I don't think many of these people are redeemable. Like a rabid dog. Simply better off dead.
One of the most common ways for people to lose ALL touch with their humanity and become capable of this sort of thing is imprisonment. Once an offender, always an offender...We put people in prison for nonviolent offenses, prevent them from getting real jobs when they get out, and expect them not to become violent eventually...