[mr contrite]

Paedophile: Gordon Boon abused young girls
An elderly paedophile found strangled in woodland may have been the victim of a vigilante revenge attack, police believe.

Gordon Boon, a registered sex offender, was killed while on licence from prison.

Detectives were last night investigating whether the 73-year-old was murdered because of his past crimes against a girl of eight and two aged 13.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ped-woods.html


Whilst not wanting to sound like i condone this act, i read this and wondered if a paedophile had committed an act on a child of mine, would i be able to commit murder on the offender, and the answer was....yes.

Could others feel that they too could commit the ultimate crime for this sort of offence, and are there other offences deemed evil enough to warrant handing out a summary execution?

[pattricia]

we would say we couldnt if it was not our child, but could if it was. Its human nature to feel like this.

[littleboo]

if anyone touched my children then yes I would, I can only imagine how these families must feel when they see the monsters who do this walking free, and i know an eye for an eye is wrong...but its human nature to protect and fight for your children.

[Ally68]

If it was my child I probably would. If given the chance.

[mr contrite]

Originally Posted by pattricia

we would say we couldnt if it was not our child, but could if it was. Its human nature to feel like this.

I agree, but feeling like that, and actually going ahead with it are 2 different things, i have mentioned before several incidents involving my lads being beaten up and if i had caught the offenders that night i would have caused serious damage to those involved, but upon sleeping on it, deemed it wise to allow the police to deal with it (not that the result was how i wanted to turn out, but hey, the CPS are a law unto themselves) yet this case seems it could possibly be a case of revenge being a dish best served cold.

[Ouija]

If it was my child, I already know exactly what I would do!

But that's not it.

[pattricia]

Originally Posted by mr contrite

I agree, but feeling like that, and actually going ahead with it are 2 different things, i have mentioned before several incidents involving my lads being beaten up and if i had caught the offenders that night i would have caused serious damage to those involved, but upon sleeping on it, deemed it wise to allow the police to deal with it (not that the result was how i wanted to turn out, but hey, the CPS are a law unto themselves) yet this case seems it could possibly be a case of revenge being a dish best served cold.

Yes I understand your view point here. Its surprising where your physical strength comes from though when one of your own is threatened.

[Heyesey]

Originally Posted by mr contrite

Could others feel that they too could commit the ultimate crime for this sort of offence, and are there other offences deemed evil enough to warrant handing out a summary execution?

Those are two entirely different questions. Could I do it? Absolutely yes. Does it warrant being done? Absolutely no.

[mr contrite]

Originally Posted by Heyesey

Those are two entirely different questions. Could I do it? Absolutely yes. Does it warrant being done? Absolutely no.

Interesting, you say you could do it, but it doesnt warrant being done!

What if time travel was possible, and knowing what you do, if you were transported back in time to Berlin 1938, and had the opportunity to kill Hitler, could you, and would it be warranted, both situations involve an evil monster, its the scale of their actions which differ.

[scarby]

Great news.

[Heyesey]

Originally Posted by mr contrite

Interesting, you say you could do it, but it doesnt warrant being done!

I've never claimed to be perfect. (Contrary to what a lot of people on here might think....)


If I knew someone had messed around with my niece, and I found him within my reach, I quite probably would strangle the *******. Emotions get you like that. Doesn't mean that I would not deserve to go to jail for murder as a consequence. I would.

[mr chris]

I'd like to believe it's a choice I'd never have to make.

[pattricia]

Originally Posted by Heyesey

Those are two entirely different questions. Could I do it? Absolutely yes. Does it warrant being done? Absolutely no.

This is how I would have expressed myself as well. Good reply.

[Alien]

If you can kill a sex offender as a vigilante it just means there's another killer on the loose. Killing a paedo doesn't excuse you from being a killer. On the other hand if your the parent of an offended child then the circumstance may dictate that you were not held mentally responsible. Killing someone after the fact wouldn't change how my daughter felt...It would only change how I felt. I really wouldn't be comfortable with killing someone in the name of my daughter...she's far to precious. If I caught someone in the act? then off come the gloves.

Personally I don't think I would as I would probably be with my daughter 24/7 after the fact. They come 1st, not me. And that's the truth of the matter.

[mr contrite]

Originally Posted by pattricia

This is how I would have expressed myself as well. Good reply.

Fair enough, but what of my post earlier regarding going back in time to pre-war Germany? would it be justified in killing hitler?

[scarby]

Originally Posted by mr contrite

Fair enough, but what of my post earlier regarding going back in time to pre-war Germany? would it be justified in killing hitler?

Yes, killing just one person (him) would save a lot more lives.

Just my opinion.

[mr contrite]

Originally Posted by scarby

Yes, killing just one person (him) would save a lot more lives.

Just my opinion.

All i ask is for opinion, but does that mean it is the extent of the crime which justifies the killing, ie the amount of people involved, rather than the crime itself?

[taxman]

I agree with Heyesey.

A young girl I once knew was approached by someone who tried to abduct her, she only told us about hours later. The police were called, statements were taken and I spent the night with her reading to her because she was scared to go to bed.

At that moment, and I remember feeling it at the time, I wanted to go out, find the bloke and torture him to death, over a period of weeks, or months.

Years later I still wish death on the bloke who wanted to take her, but I'm less inclined to wield the sword myself and, emotion aside, I know it would have been wrong to have sought justice myself

[Heyesey]

Originally Posted by mr contrite

Fair enough, but what of my post earlier regarding going back in time to pre-war Germany? would it be justified in killing hitler?

There's no emotion involved in that decision - however many lives Hitler may have cost, there were none of them personally known to me.

Also, you're presenting a situation where we know what the consequences of not killing the guy would be. While murdering the guy who fiddled with my niece might be personally satisfying on a revenge basis, it doesn't necessarily - in fact it probably does not - save any lives.

[*_ash_*]

Originally Posted by someone earlier

but its human nature to protect and fight for your children.

Absolutely.

However, if it was a heat of the moment decision to strangle someone (not the same as this case, as his crimes were a number of years ago), protecting and fighting for your children is a lot harder from prison.

I read a story in a woman's mag last week (so it must be true), about a woman who after finding out about her brother-in-law doing things to her daughter, went to his workplace and shot him dead.

Afterwards, she realised that she couldn't protect her from a cell room. She also mentioned (in about one sentence, of a 2 page spread) that her daughter had many problems later, believing that it was her fault that her Mum was in prison, because she spoke out about the abuse.

It was a heavily one sided story, but even looking from any point of view, I couldn't really see any winners.



edit, about 10 post written since I starting writing that, so a little off topic