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  • #16
    OK I give you that big pros are mostly ordering hits, not doing it themselves. But then again, that's how it is everywhere.

    "This is the way the courts interpret it. If you do an act whose intention is to kill, say shoot someone in the head, you are commiting a murder even in Finland."

    Not so simple. I mean, when you think about it, it's that simple, but then again courts of law in here are fighting to get the minimum charges, not the other way around.

    If you shoot someone in the head execution style, of course it's a murder. But then again that often is also sign of brutality. Sure, of course it also shows the intention. However, almost everyone who thinks about killing someone, goes and does it, excluding clear pro execution, is just a normal kill and not murder. What I mean is, when I have determined to kill someone over dispute, and I go do it, meaning I have the motive to do it, I have more time than one hour, I actually go over that place, armed, and the other person dies, it's more often than not just a kill, not murder. In those cases it needs to show unusual brutality. It's not a kill when you thinka bout it, go armed, clearly you have planned to kill that person, and more often than not it's not murder. Because murders are relatively rare in here, but killings are common. I'm not talking about drunk stabber.

    Also if you carry a knife with you and you are sober, and you stab a bystander 30 times, I say that's a murder even if you don't know the person. You are carrying a weapon with you, you aren't even drunk, and if you initiate the attack, then it's a murder. Like the stabbers lately, who have attacked random folks in the street, I don't see that as attempted manslaughter or anything, I see that as attempted murder. Like I said, I don't need a powerpoint presentation, if that other person is just random dude, and the gang goes in, talks smack and pushes the person around and at the end stabs them multiple times, that's attempted murder in my books. Because there was enough intention. And when you go and kill someone when you actually have a motive and knwo the person, that needs to be a murder in every single case, unless it truly happened suddenly and it was a weird situation. MOre often that not, it's never murder in here for some reason.

    I never said intentional killing isn't a murder. I said it is, but the court of law rarely sees it the same. Outside drunk stabbers who stab friends with kitchen knife, those situations happen by accident, or by what ever extremely rarely. Someone is always already armed, and they go and do it. THat's a murder. Rarely it's seen as one in the court.

    Besides, the word harkiten leaves too much air. What is harkiten? Where is the line drawn? In my opinion it's drawn in the absolute minimum, meaning that if there's any kind of intention beforehand, it's always harkiten. But somehow almost no one gets convicted of murder, but lesser manslaughters etc all the time for clear situations.
    In da butt.
    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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    "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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    • #17
      ottok

      Humppa

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      • #18
        Finland
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        For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
        But he would think of something

        "Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker

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        • #19
          Here you can see what the the Supreme Court (or how should I translate Korkein oikeus?) says about interprating what is harkiten and what isn't:



          It describes a case where the Supreme Court changes lower court's manslaughter to murder.

          Your gun example would clearly be a murder for them. And any killings besides drunk stabbers are pretty rare in Finland.

          I think it's pretty clear that it's murder when the decision to kill is a product of rational thinking, or like the text behind the link says, if the killer has considered the killing as a solution to a problem. If it's a sudden decision made more by instinct than thought, it's manslaughter. The problem here is, that if the killer doesn't do anything obvious, like go to get a weapon and then come back to kill, how can you prove what he was thinking?

          The point I was trying to make with professional criminals, and I don't just mean the real pros, but people who make their living from crime, that while Finland has far more violent crime than any other country in Western Europe, we still have, according to all studies, relatively little professional crime. The wast majority of killings in Finland happens when two drunks are in a heated argument, and the other one feels his honor insulted or something, his instincts take over and he strikes the other dead before realizing what he's doing. The main cause is our drinking habits and fairly aggressive culture. There are of course cases among them where the killing is clearly a murder, but when it seems to outside just the same, how can the courts prove it? After all, when there's doubt, you should always make sure that no innocents suffer at the hands of justice.

          I don't know if this concerns you or not, but the biggest whining is for example when the Natural Born Killers makes one of their executions, which gets alot of publicity, and then someone reminds the people that most killers receive light sentences. What they fail to notice is that the executioners make up a very small percentage of killers, and they still get life, and if something drastic doesn't happen in the next decades, they will be locked up for a long, long time.

          Many say that people should just control themselves, but I have done in some situations things I wouldn't have wanted to just by instinct (nothing criminal though, and I still don't beleive I woulld kill someone), and couldn't think fast enough to stop myself. I can understand that, in the right circumstances, especially if heavily drunk, it isn't so difficult to kill by half-accident, and the person who does that isn't necessarily evil and doesn't deserve his life to be totally ruined by a life sentence.

          When you compare Finnish criteria for murder with other countries', you should note that while some perhaps give murder sentences more lightly, not every country has a life sentence as a mandatory punishment. If the court feels that life is too harsh for a case, it has to go for manslaughter.

          Still, I agree that the courts are too ften too careful, and for example in the case I linked, the lower court was nuts to claim there wasn't intent. The punshment sholud also be raisde with manslaughter, since now many can get with practically only four years in prison, and that's too light, even if they did lose control. The trend lately has been though to increase sentences and to widen the criteria for murder.

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          • #20
            MyPa 48 FC

            (My cousin used toplay for them! )

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            • #21
              Finland worshipped the Old Gods for quite along time, when over nations had fallen to the white christ
              'The very basis of the liberal idea – the belief of individual freedom is what causes the chaos' - William Kristol, son of the founder of neo-conservitivism, talking about neo-con ideology and its agenda for you.info here. prove me wrong.

              Bush's Republican=Neo-con for all intent and purpose. be afraid.

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              • #22
                Finnish law:
                People talking about finnish law:

                Finnish young women:
                Finnish young women in summer: :censored:

                Roasted whitewater fish:
                Finnish beef:
                Christmas beef:

                Sun:
                Sun over Finland: (It's just better...)
                I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                • #23
                  Jari Kurri
                  Saku Koivu
                  Ville Nieminen
                  "The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
                  "you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
                  "I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident

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                  • #24
                    Finland

                    Pekka
                    Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

                    Do It Ourselves

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                    • #25
                      Conquering the world as Finland during WW2.
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                      Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                      When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                      • #26
                        Tina
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                        We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                        • #27
                          Aalvar Aalto

                          Finnish use of vowels

                          Pekka

                          Finnish architecture


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                          Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                          ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                          • #28
                            Carrying knives

                            Morose drunkards who work in the logging industry

                            Matti Nykanen

                            SADS-triggered bouts of insanity

                            Pekka (see above)
                            The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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                            • #29
                              Nice building, Molly. When do you think they'll work out this "window" concept?
                              The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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                              • #30
                                Saku Koivu
                                Resident Filipina Lady Boy Expert.

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