DC Sniper

To be honest, I am tired and I am going to sleep in a few minutes, that's why I didn't read your link.

People's views on CP (rofl capital punishment/child porn have the same initials) were formed before that article. I know mine were.

Maybe I came off a bit belligerent. I meant more that I was trying show you an example of misplaced punishment and of the massive flaws that erupt from human institutions. From the way you've been posting, you seem to believe in an almost infallible system where revenge is served to only those that deserve it. Yet...that's not always the case. When you put an innocent man to death, what more value can be found in this system?

In any case, if revenge was truly the point of the justice system, we'd be allowing vigilante rule and/or letting the families of victims put the convicted murderer to death. But we don't. In fact, we even have an amendment in the Constitution itself prohibiting such acts to be done. This is moot, of course, if you view general incarceration and such to fall under society's "revenge" for law-breakers, which is actually funny, considering that most prisoners are poor, minority, etc. Like they haven't been punished enough

But that's just the bleeding-heart liberal inside me talking.