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Would you take the law into your own hands if the legal system failed you??

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  • 11-01-2013 6:49pm
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    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭


    If the law failed you in a regard. And the person who wronged you remained unpunished through our legal system, for something quite serious, a rape for example. Would you take it upon yourself to take the law into your own hands to see the perpetrator punished, knowing full well what the repercussions could be?

    I'm not a violent person, quite the opposite. I really don't have any sort of temper. But theoretically I imagine if my girlfriend had been raped and there was no justice through our legal system, I think I'd almost feel obliged to take matters into my own hands.

    My conscious would be telling me that this is the wrong approach to the situation, but I don't think I could feel relief myself on a very selfish level perhaps unless I did.

    How about you?




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    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    yup


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    #3
    chughes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Thread could do with a poll.

    Put me down for a yes.


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    #4
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    I don't think anyone can truly answer that until the comes, and we all deep down would prefer never to be in that position.


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    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Without a doubt,if anyone broke into my house id mutilate them,if they done anything to my family id leave them incapable of living in any comfort rather than give them the privilage of death.

    I'm nice,but don't fook with my family or my property.


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    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    In theory yeas.

    In reality it hasn't happened so I don't know.


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    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I'd contact Mick Wallace. He knows people who know people.


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    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Agricola wrote: »
    I'd contact Mick Wallace. He knows people who know people.
    meh,the pink shirt gang are a bunch of pansys.


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    #9
    spoonface
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭spoonface


    As the old proverb says, he who is intent on revenge must first dig 2 graves...


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    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    I would handcuff them then tell them to watch their head, oooooooooo look it explodes just like a melon.


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    I would.

    I have been wronged by a few people that thought they were above the law before but for the sake of a better word, I got my "revenge".


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    SmilingLurker
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭SmilingLurker


    If anyone hurt my little girl, yes. I am non violent, but if someone hurts/abuses/kills a child solitary for life meaning until death should be the minimum punishment.


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    #13
    donvito99
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    No. I'm no anarchist.


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    Difference Engine
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭Difference Engine


    Definitely would. Knowing myself there is no way I would be able to let that go.

    Something that serious would have me planning ways to make someone disappear. Well planned, obviously no point in going off in a rage and then getting caught.


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    Marsden
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Marsden


    I'd rape them


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    #16
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    I would.

    I have been wronged by a few people that thought they were above the law before but for the sake of a better word, I got my "revenge".

    I want to know the better word, I am dyslexic, (I now know how to spell this word from the other thread).


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    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭clairefontaine


    No. At least I don't think so.

    I have already been in a situation where the legal system failed me, for something very serious, and I did not take it into my own hands, nor would I. I had always thought previous to the actual thing happening that I would, but in the heel of the hunt I didn't and it was the wiser but imperfect decision.


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    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Honestly, yes.

    Otherwise I'd just think they're laughing away to themselves that they got away with it.

    Rape or murder of a family member = no brainer.


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    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    There's a legal system? We just shoot em round here. How does a man access this "legal system" you speak of? And does it involve shooting them legally?


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    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭clairefontaine


    SmilingLurker wrote: »
    If anyone hurt my little girl, yes. I am non violent, but if someone hurts/abuses/kills a child solitary for life meaning until death should be the minimum punishment.

    While noble, the problem with this is that the person who harmed your child was already found non guilty, so s/he can't be tried again, that means they walk free.

    Meanwhile, you have committed a crime, you are already set up because you have motive, and lo and behold you are the one who is in prison and you are no longer able to protect your little girl because you are behind bars, and that monster is walking free, even MORE able than before to do more harm because you are the one on prison, or death row if you are in the US.


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    #21
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Yes...or to quote Anthrax: 'I am the law' :D


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    Marsden
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Marsden


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Yes...or to quote Anthrax: 'I am the law' :D

    Was that not Judge Dredd?


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,044 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    It would depend on the consequences.

    If I did, I'd probably go after him, but not violently. I'm a pacificst and don;t think violence solves anything.

    Plus, you can **** up someone's life a lot better psychologically. :D

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Bedshaped
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Bedshaped


    No, I would not.

    We put the system in place and if the system fails you, change the system.

    No single person has the right to take justice into their own hands.


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    StinkyMunkey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭StinkyMunkey


    Someone could put me in hospital and I'd get over it.

    You harm my wife or childern, ill cut your throat (not that I'd enjoy the hard time that would come with it). I'd die a little each day if anyone hurt my family and was walking around Free as a bird.


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    StinkyMunkey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭StinkyMunkey


    Marsden wrote: »
    Was that not Judge Dredd?

    Anthrax got that from Judge Dredd, the song is based on him.


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    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I'd do what those Americans in Steubenville did and plaster the incriminating evidence all over the internet. The hive delivers far more efficient justice than our suspended sentence addicts in the judiciary these days...


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    #28
    Peetrik
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    Yep, no question.

    I also skip red lights on my bike when there is no one around. Mad max would be proud.


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    3ndahalfof6 wrote: »
    I want to know the better word, I am dyslexic, (I now know how to spell this word from the other thread).

    I dunno....

    comeuppance?


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    Luca Brasi
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭Luca Brasi


    Yes. I would get my revenge but would be very careful about it so that I would't end up in trouble. I would let the hare sit for a good while and then start a campaign of harassment towards him/her. Anonymous threats to his home/workplace. Contacting the undertaker to call to his house in connection with a death. Everything and anything which would drive him mad. Discrete observation of his movements and when the right opportunity comes BANG, ACROSS THE KNEECAPS WITH A HURLEY. Stick a "paedo out" poster on his house and let the Evening Herald loose on him


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    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    No, cause then the law will take care of you.


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