Is it not true that people form lynch mobs to take the focus off of their own legal and moral insufficiencies? Well, among other reasons, but that's always a hidden motive for it.
Also, not to say that the crime was ok or anything, but it seems to me that it's being a bit overblown. The boy was killed by the guy...and in the same moment some other kid across town died of an unknown heart defect, and 6 women had abortions, and two people committed suicides, and one guy got hit by a bus... Death happens, people, and it happens sooner or later to everyone. The crime of killing is not in ending a life, but in determining when to end it. If someone is old enough, we call it assisted suicide. If they are young enough, we call it abortion. Yes, hypocracy is a central theme to this discussion, in more ways than one.
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I'm reminded of the Old Testament system involving "cities of refuge" to hold criminals...to keep them away from "decent" and "innocent" society while allowing them to remain human. Of course, that seems too logical and easy to be implemented in a modern context.
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A city of refuge was only for a person who accidentally killed another.
And it wasn't protecting decent society at all- the cities of refuge were regular cities just like any others.
My bad. I was just going by my (not very good) memory on that. Oh, well, it's good to be imperfect.
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