09-09-2020, 05:17 PM
(09-09-2020, 03:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Classic X'er, I hope that what you said to Mikebert is strictly a figure of speech.I shouldn't have to tell a teacher like yourself that it was a figure of speech.
The best way to deal with a lynching is to deter it or thwart it. I'm not citing what was said, but all in all, lynching is evidence of the breakdown of law and order. Let none be confused: law and order is essential to a civil society, and without it any enumerated rights are pipe dreams. Law and order means that people trust law enforcement, courts, and (for the worst deeds that people can do to each other that cash settlements could never mitigate) prisons and in perhaps some extremely-rare cases, executions (treason, piracy, serial killers, mass killings, human trafficking*). Maybe we are better off if we believe that a just God would send such people as Holocaust perpetrators and their victims to very different places in Eternity. Should people not be moral, then they might be given the fear of Hell as a substitute.
If possible, I would cut someone down someone still struggling for life from the rope, and I would certainly report any lynching to law enforcement for arrest and prosecution. Lynching is a violation of civil liberties, and I would remind you that is a capital crime if it results in a death.
* I consider human trafficking the worst thing that anyone could do to another. Victims' lives become a veritable Hell on Earth. The suffering ends for a murder victim, but not for someone trafficked until that person dies or is liberated. I have no problem with China executing those who commit this crime, my only questions being about the legal process.