Residents beat, hold man accused of showing kids porn

[Winston]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I have more problem with people in my own country who have this opinion. While we may have regional differences, we don't really have cultural differences in regard to sex and children.

Pardon me, but you're off your rocker if you put down this controversy to "cultural differences".

We've had several cases of idiots running amok in a similar manner here in little ol' Denmark.

[SlowwHand]

So it's a personal difference?
Winston, I don't believe that for one moment.

You're saying then that in your opinion, your personal opinion, a stranger needs to, in anyway, pursue sexual conduct of any kind whatsoever with a child?

If you say yes, I don't believe you.

[SlowwHand]

It's wrong by anyone. I say stranger, because he was a stranger.

[Winston]

I thought you weren't going to debate it any further?

Oh, and as Kuciwalker pointed out just recently, no, that's not what I'm saying.

[SlowwHand]

I'm not debating it at all. Debates means there are two valid opinions.

I'm wanting to find out from a friend, what bothers him.
It's that he was roughed up a little. The article says he ran to escape. It doesn't say how much he struggled.
The picture shows injuries less severe than falling off a bicycle.


But ok, you're getting irritated with me, and I don't want that. So I'll exclude myself totally from this thread.

[Winston]

Hm, irritated.. I'm rather in a state of disbelief that you can't see anything wrong in this guy being mauled up by 15 grown men over showing some kids a couple of nude pictures. And that you don't seem to realise that my stance does not in any way condone what he did. It's just that I don't regard it as him having committed the equivalent of capital murder, as you seem to.

By the way, when was the last time you heard of a murderer getting brutalized by 15 misguided puritans, until the police could arrive?

[DinoDoc]

Mauled? Are you looking at the same pic everyone else is?

[Winston]

They didn't give him cookies and ice cream, can we all agree on that?

As SlowwHand would put it, their intent was probably to maul him.

[DinoDoc]

It looks like they barely did anything to him.

[Gibsie]

If they wanted him hurt, he would have been, and chances are if they started seriously damaging him, they wouldn't have stopped. I doubt that even a jury made up of liberals like winston () would convict any of the apprehenders of assault if it came to that.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Oh hell here we have this perv getting thrown to the ground and being detained. sure he got a few punches but as it has been said it was never mentioned if he struggled or not. The guy wasnt mauled. he was hit and knocked to the ground , hell my ex boyfriend messed me up more then that guy and all i did was ask why he stayed out all night. All i say is have a kid winston a little girl for that matter and see how u feel if a perv comes up to her and does **** like this, ur attitude will change.

[:) Smiley]

dont mess with texans, what more is there to say.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Winston
This and other instances are examples of an hysterical overrreaction by people who do not think about the proportions or the actual harm inflicted.

It has nothing to do with whether you're a parent or not. That's just another knee jerk excuse that is used when you can't rationally defend the position you take up.

People defending this kind of behaviour make me sick. The real perverts here are the men who beat this guy up, and the bystanders who cheered them on and congratulate them, including ones on this board.

I'm not a parent, but if I had my hands on a kiddy fiddler he would look a good deal worse than the pervert in that picture.

Oh, and I'll take trial by jury, please.

[Proteus_MST]

But you shouldn´t forget that the person in this special case probably didn´t want to rape any of these children.
With the actions he took (i.e. showing these kids these pictures) he sound to me rather than some kind of exhibitionist (and it is an established fact that exhibitionists normally have no intention to rape their victims).
He´s a pervert, but probably he´s still worlds away from someone who rapes children.

[notyoueither]

I don't know that is true.