[the truth]

Originally Posted by Livia

Well, going on the brief information in that article, the crowd were alerted by a woman's screams... they followed the screams and found this man "in an alley pinning the women to a wall" (I'm paraphrasing, despite the quotation marks.) I'm sure the crowd didn't pick this man at random and even though I'm a great advocate of a fair trial, preferably by jury, the disgusting, haunting reports of rape that I've read from India makes a part of me think, thank goodness rape is finally being taken seriously instead of being tolerated because women aren't worth as much as men. I would be interested to see more about this case though.

Im afraid the opposite is now true. men like this get murdered on the streets based of fouundless baseless allegations and no trial and no chance to defend yourself, that's sexism in its worst possible form.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

The 2 things are not equivalent because the rapist was attacking an innocent victim, but the angry mob was attacking a guilty man.

hurting someone who is innocent is worse than attacking a guilty person in retribution.

We're all "guilty" of something. It doesn't give each of us the right to decide who's done wrong and dish out punishments to them.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

We're all "guilty" of something. It doesn't give each of us the right to decide who's done wrong and dish out punishments to them.

I didn't say that mob justice is right. I just said that it's less wrong than raping an innocent victim. It's not equivalent. Many people are saying that the mob is just as bad as the rapist, and that's not true. The rapist is still worse than the mob.

[the truth]

mob rule is mental , it has to be stopped

[Tom4784]

I don't understand why people are applauding this, it's essentially punishing a sex crime with a sex crime.

I pity anyone who thinks that this is an acceptable course of action and I hope that one day they can get past their casual bloodlust.