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tRidiot

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So how many of us might be just a phone call or text message away from losing it and doing something we might regret? I don't know the circumstances behind this. I don't know the guy. All we know is he is accused, no other real info.

But what would you do in certain circumstances? Seriously, like... phone call, "So-and-so is borking your wife." Or "... your daughter." Or someone beat.. or raped... or murdered your daughter? Your physically- or mentally-challenged child. Someone at the senior center abused or raped your elderly grandmother? ...who has dementia? Your child's coach/teacher took advantage of them. Their doctor? Their dentist?

It's an interesting exercise to stop and really seriously examine what it would take for you to throw away everything you have ever worked for because of rage or hurt or despair. For a moment of revenge, or justice served instantaneously, instead of meted out over years of a trial and decades of a sentence in prison, or even death row, where they may die of old age before their number comes up?

We all like to think we are pretty reasonable people... remember the guy in TX who caught some dude actually in the act of raping his daughter? I think she was like 5 years old? Beat the guy to death with his bare hands. Another one walked up on his wife getting boned in a pickup (also in TX?), and when she saw him, she screamed, "RAPE!" And what happened? He killed the guy, only to find out after the fact, it was really an ongoing affair and she panicked. Then she was the one charged with the murder.


But what would it take? I'm not asking anyone to post on here... these are thoughts mostly for private introspection. Know your limits. Know your triggers. Maybe even try to work on those triggers so they don't trigger you? Or at least not as hard? I dunno...

Just sad to see this. One of those guys went to work today thinking he would be going home to his family, putting his feet up, having a beer, grillin' some ribs this weekend (in the freezing rain), whatever. You never know.
 

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So how many of us might be just a phone call or text message away from losing it and doing something we might regret? I don't know the circumstances behind this. I don't know the guy. All we know is he is accused, no other real info.

But what would you do in certain circumstances? Seriously, like... phone call, "So-and-so is borking your wife." Or "... your daughter." Or someone beat.. or raped... or murdered your daughter? Your physically- or mentally-challenged child. Someone at the senior center abused or raped your elderly grandmother? ...who has dementia? Your child's coach/teacher took advantage of them. Their doctor? Their dentist?

It's an interesting exercise to stop and really seriously examine what it would take for you to throw away everything you have ever worked for because of rage or hurt or despair. For a moment of revenge, or justice served instantaneously, instead of meted out over years of a trial and decades of a sentence in prison, or even death row, where they may die of old age before their number comes up?

We all like to think we are pretty reasonable people... remember the guy in TX who caught some dude actually in the act of raping his daughter? I think she was like 5 years old? Beat the guy to death with his bare hands. Another one walked up on his wife getting boned in a pickup (also in TX?), and when she saw him, she screamed, "RAPE!" And what happened? He killed the guy, only to find out after the fact, it was really an ongoing affair and she panicked. Then she was the one charged with the murder.


But what would it take? I'm not asking anyone to post on here... these are thoughts mostly for private introspection. Know your limits. Know your triggers. Maybe even try to work on those triggers so they don't trigger you? Or at least not as hard? I dunno...

Just sad to see this. One of those guys went to work today thinking he would be going home to his family, putting his feet up, having a beer, grillin' some ribs this weekend (in the freezing rain), whatever. You never know.
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane" Akira Kurosawa
 

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