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'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfrie

'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc.. And will he eventually be out after is 'non life sentence'? They executed SS Officers for much less. I suggest in some cases the death penalty may be warranted.

coldtea 10y ago
>'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc.. Yeah, so? They are bad because they don't care much for revenge or they didn't punish hard someone who killed many people? As if having him die in some electric chair will bring those people back? If anything, that's even more Christian (in spirit) than the Old Testament "eye for an eye" US mentality. And if anything else, this treatment helps show Brevik for what he is, a lone loony who hurt innocent people -- as opposed to some "martyred" killer in a society that itself hypocritically kills people too. And maybe this mentality is part of the reason why those "progressive Europeans" have way less Anders Breviks, whereas in the US there's one born every minute...
- jomamaxx 10y ago
  An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed. Executing Brevik is not 'revenge', it is justice. He deserves to be executed. I'm not generally a supporter of capital punishment, but it is blatantly immoral that he should live an almost normal, healthy life after his mass crimes.
  - gakada 10y ago
    Brevik committed unthinkable acts in an attempt to change Norwegian society. Applying anything other than the established law to him, let alone ending the European moratorium on capital punishment, would gift him success.
  - qu4z-2 10y ago
    > An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed Someone who killed could himself be killed, etc. Everyone who takes revenge calls it "justice".

coldtea 10y ago

>'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc.. Yeah, so? They are bad because they don't care much for revenge or they didn't punish hard someone who killed many people? As if having him die in some electric chair will bring those people back? If anything, that's even more Christian (in spirit) than the Old Testament "eye for an eye" US mentality. And if anything else, this treatment helps show Brevik for what he is, a lone loony who hurt innocent people -- as opposed to some "martyred" killer in a society that itself hypocritically kills people too. And maybe this mentality is part of the reason why those "progressive Europeans" have way less Anders Breviks, whereas in the US there's one born every minute...

jomamaxx 10y ago
An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed. Executing Brevik is not 'revenge', it is justice. He deserves to be executed. I'm not generally a supporter of capital punishment, but it is blatantly immoral that he should live an almost normal, healthy life after his mass crimes.
- gakada 10y ago
  Brevik committed unthinkable acts in an attempt to change Norwegian society. Applying anything other than the established law to him, let alone ending the European moratorium on capital punishment, would gift him success.
- qu4z-2 10y ago
  > An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed Someone who killed could himself be killed, etc. Everyone who takes revenge calls it "justice".