More Daily Mail fodder

[Lucifer Box]

I made no comparison between the crimes and the perpertrators and tried to view them without emotion.

As I said in my original post, it is shocking what people do when they have a perverted belief.

I will let you decide for yourself If I had a hidden agenda (my previous posts on this board will help you judge if I have such a duplicitous nature) in posting it within this thread or if I genuinely thought it highlighted well the way we as a society view crimes and our reactions to them.

I think the Master has you banged to rights, Clippy. You can't slip in a contentious post like that and then say you didn't intend the two to be compared.

[Dow Jones]

PC Clippy

That's what happens when you always try to be politically correct. You have to constantly justify yourself with tosh excuses

[Lucifer Box]

Perhaps the public should decide?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ge-clippy.html

[Clippy]

I think the Master has you banged to rights, Clippy. You can't slip in a contentious post like that and then say you didn't intend the two to be compared.

I do appreciate your view (and The Masters) but what element in particular is contentious?

Is there some formula that should be used to decide that one crime is more abhorrent than the other?

[Dow Jones]

In a hole and..

Keep digging...

[Clippy]

Keep digging...

Will still be way above you

P.S. Don't forget to vote.

[Dow Jones]

Device

You've made my tosh-ometer go off-scale now!

[NotAllThere]

As I said in my original post, it is shocking what people do when they have a perverted belief.

The plotters believed what they were doing, was, according to their religious beliefs, morally justifiable. In fact, a righteous act.

There's nowhere that I can see which suggests Kate Knight was motivated by anything other than greed and hatred.

Can you clarify - precisely what perverted belief did she have?

[Tex]

Is there some formula that should be used to decide that one crime is more abhorrent than the other?

Well in one case the perp actually attempted to carry out the murder, in the other it was merely at the planning stage. Some might say that makes a difference. UK law does not, as it punishes planning to commit a crime the same as actually committing it.

[Tex]

Correcting myself

Well in one case the perp actually attempted to carry out the murder, in the other it was merely at the planning stage. Some might say that makes a difference. UK law does not, as it punishes planning to commit a crime the same as actually committing it.

Actually that's not quite true. The UK punishes attempting a crime the same as actually carrying it out, with one or two exceptions (mainly terrorism).