<t>At first hearing you left your door unlocked I was astounded but the more I think about it, it's a numbers game. I'm sure even people in the worst neighbourhoods in the world could leave their doors unlocked and take the risk that it might not be them that gets paid a visit from the local ...

<t>So you don't agree that if we had more severe punishments for crimes it would put would-be criminals off? Say for example: if you steal, your hands are cut off. If you kill, you are killed. (These punishments are all of course based on if the criminals in question did the crimes and were ...

<t>Well I'd have to disagree and state that a debate is in all but a name a discussion. It's a formal method of discussing different view points and as this thread contains a lot of emotional aspects from different angles the two are different in all but a name.<br/>
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<t>Personally I don't believe that they are being rehabilitated. They have been released into the free world and are finally out of prison. Can you imagine what that must feel like after been locked up from ten years of age? They'd swear on their mother's lives they were reformed just to get out and ...

<t>I'm with you.<br/>
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I can't see how society can ever trust a murderer, no matter what program or rehabiliation course they are forced to go on.<br/>
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A question to bare in mind: If a killer was never caught, would they themselves sign up for such rehab treatment or would they continue ...

<t>Parents should definitely be held responsibly to some level for this atrocity but again I believe it is the pupertrators who should be punished.<br/>
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Parents whose kids don't go to school can find themselves locked up or fined. This is because they have failed to install a sense of ...

<t>Spot, for as long as I've been on here, you've come across as a right sanctimonious know-it-all. I can just see you writing a post, finishing it and kicking back thinking "job well done." The smugness radiating from your corner is stifling.<br/>
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Do you know what an extremist is or have you ...

I just think there's a certain member on here who's getting people's backs up because he's supporting a side of society that should be flushed down the toilet...

<t>So are we getting what you think here or what's happening in the world? Because I know how the world works and what's happening. If you're just reiterating the laws of the land there's no need. This is a debate on whether Bulger's killers should be allowed back into society. I'm against that ...

Rather an extremist opposed to stupid laws than a blind fool who upholds everything his government feeds him.

If everything you've said is middle of the road and from the stance of the queen's law, what are your own opinions? Why come on here to fight somebody else's opinions???

Spot's beginning to grow on me. He's like that one friend everybody has who's always wrong but who tries to hammer his point home until he's blue in the face.

Here here!

What threat? When has there been a threat made?

That's the best thing you've posted so far!!!!!!! Killers are now victims!

Yeah Spot, aren't the law makers of this country great? They and people like yourself are the reason why this country - and planet - is on a slippery slope.

You've defended killer after killer on this thread. Why?

<t>MrsK is absolutley correct. Impulses are for life. And before you say killing isn't an impluse, how else do you describe their actions?<br/>
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They weren't just acting on a few years of bad childhood (and we should put this excuse to bed now. Just how bad was their upbringing in comparison to ...

<t>But you keep sidestepping the point I'm trying to make and others too have tried to make. Doesn't matter if your a 1957 killer who hasn't reoffended since, a child soldier who has grown up in harsh conditions or a couple of kids who grew up around domestic violence, you are the driver of your own ...

<t>Maybe it's best to stop mentioning Mary Bell as you have no evidence she's reformed. What goes on in her head to this day is for her to know; we will never, so she cannot be used as a reliable source.<br/>
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As for the extremist remark, yes, I suppose if you call somebody who wants to protect ...

<t>Put bluntly, none of these people who you use as examples should get the chance to better themselves and prove to the world they can change and become a better person. Who gives a *****? You kill, you give up your own chance of life. Simple.<br/>
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Think about this. What if we had a system ...

<t>I think this thread has gone a long way off track from the original subject, Spot. Taking into account the possibilty that some people can be eventually reformed (and even then I do not believe for a second they are completely rehabilitated), a fundamental question is: Why the hell should the ...

<t>Spot, concerning Mary Bell, how can you say she has changed? You say she is being watched byt the parole office and that they would know if she was up to anything. Do you really think the govenment is seriously funding a full time watch on a woman who committed her crimes in 1957? Or is it more ...

<t>I registered to respond to your argument because I simply am constantly amazed that there are people out there like yourself who have to find an explanation for everything and try to defend people who kill for no good reason other than to please their sick side.<br/>
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Yet here you are, a ...

<t>Hey Spot,<br/>
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I too have recently joined this site after finally stumbling across the atrocities of what happened to James Bulger and reading the horrid details. (Never realised quite how brutal his last few hours had been. Obviously the news never mentioned this and you had to dig deeper ...