?Why does it matter whther or not I'm to be taken seriously as a person?? Because if you want to debate on a serious subject then you need to be able to put across a serious view if you want people to take your opinions on board and potentially agree with them.
?who cares if I say 'lol' a lot.? This is not a subject worth ?lol? ing about though is it? How can you expect this to be a serious discussion (and whatever your feelings about confrontation, a discussion about the murder of a child by two children can only ever be a serious discussion) when you are constantly saying ?lol? at every turn and quoting Disney as your reference.
?And what has where I live got to do with it?? well, given you are, I am assuming, from the US, where either of these children is irrelevant to the safety of your children, and your country has far more of its own issues to deal with than the whereabouts of two blokes out on licence. Would you expect someone from the UK to start opinionating over your country?s laws, and believe me there are far more of them to opinionate about, the death penalty and the potential change in the law in Chicago to allow people to openly carry guns and for children to be allowed to take them to school being ust two of them.
?Jon Venables was NOT an abused child. He was violent and sadistic,? and did his parents seek help for that prior to him committing this crime? Because if not then he might just as well have been an abused child. Had his parents saught help wrt his violence prior to this incident then perhaps he would have got help sooner and this would never have happened. Whether he was physically abused or not, the indicators would hve been there before it got to this level, and yet no-one did anything.
?Well it's a shame she didn't stop for one second to think how her compassionate, enlightened view of James Bulger's slaugher as 'unpleasant' might sound
to his poor mother, who is serving her own life sentence.? The fact that there is still a victim to this crime does not make an opinion invalid or unmentionable. She has a right to voice the opinion that these two boys were too young to have been tried in an adult court. Never has she said they shouldn?t have been held to account,just that they shouldn?t have been prosecuted as adults, and she is absolutely right.
?She should be sacked immediately.? No she shouldn?t. James bulger's parents (and why is it that most people are only thinking of his mother here?) are going through hell over this, and this is tbh not helped by the fact that the media probably camp outside their front doors for comment every time this subject is raised. However we cannot sensor potentially valid debate based on the upset caused to one person. Because we can never always get it right, and perhaps if there is a next time then we can learn from mistakes potentially made the last time.