[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]Can you be certain that you'd remain rational if you walked in on your daughter being raped?Zeviander
There is a difference between irrationality and unjustified brutality. In a just, civil society, we are all accountable for our actions, whether we are being rational about them or not. This man could easily have stopped the crime and subdued the man without killing him (police do this all the time). There was no threat of lethal force, thus the use of lethal force to stop it is not legally justified. And you cannot tell me the embarassment of a public trial by a jury of his peers with full media coverage, and a long prison sentence in a facility that contains people who rape and torture child molestors would not be a worse punishment than a quick death at the hands of an enraged father. There is no way the father's actions can be justified in a society that claims to uphold freedom, human rights and most importantly JUSTICE. Justice is a fair trial and reasonable prison sentence (and preferably reparations, but it doesn't work like that here). Not a brutal death at the hands of an incredibly emotional, biased first party. The father should have been charged with manslaughter, and at the very least a form of assault causing grievous bodily harm/death. Whether a criminal or not, the molestor is entitled to rights afford all citizens of a just society. The father did not allow the system to do it's job and took the law into his own hands. We aren't living in a comic book world where Gotham City has an ineffectual legal system and needs a masked vigilante swinging around stopping crimes.Are you some sort of robot? Now, I'm not going to hypothesise what I'd do in such a f*cking horrible situation, and I'm not a parent either.
But I can guarantee that given the horrific situation, the majority of people would ACT FIRST, THINK LATER.
Something which the police (and seemingly the law) agree with.
I'm not cheering over the guys death, but I think that prosecuting the father would achieve absolutely nothing. This man is not a violent offender or someone who needs to be rehabilitated, he walked in on his daughter being raped and acted as a father. Your problem is that you're applying rational thought (blah blah threat of danger, proportionate force) to an extreme situation that any parent would have nightmares about.
And why do you say he "should have been charged with manslaughter" as though you hold authority over the courts themselves? He wasn't in breach of the law, his actions don't warrant prosecution, and he and his family should be left to recover.
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