Day 114
I think one of the best crime deterrants of the modern age is the sensationalization of crime in the media. It's to a point now, where you honestly don't know if the crime you're about to commit, no matter how petty or severe, will end up on television, or the internet, or the papers, or wherever else. We have police tape video shows, ICBC bait car videos (which are hilarious, I highly recommend them), even that show where pedophiles get tricked into embarrassing themselves on NBC moments before being tasered.
On a note: how is that legal? I could swear that entrapment laws prevent cops from making up phony crime opportunities just to lure in would-be criminals. Not only that, but these poor guys (yes I know they're pedophiles, but honestly I still feel bad for them) get paraded like spectacles in front of millions of people, often naked. It's like we've reached a moral climate where as long as a person is really bad, we're somehow allowed to do anything we want to that person as punishment. Really, how is that any different from an old fashioned tarring/feathering?
Finally, there's Drudgereport, and the way it takes what were formerly small local stories and turns them into media sensations. Remember the lady who "found" a finger in her Wendy's chili? That was Drudgereport.
And then there's this guy: http://cbs3.com/topstories/officer.robert.melia.2.706410.html who has recently been charged for having sex with cows. There's a picture, even his last name. I could phone the guy if I wanted to. And the interesting part is that he (in fact none of these people) hasn't been convicted of anything! Nobody has! We treat suspects as guilty the moment their disheveled photos hit the screen. "Well of COURSE he did it, it's all over the news!" We reason...
On another note, I don't think it should count as animal cruelty if the cow enjoyed it, or at least didn't mind. Sure, the thing can't consent, but hell it can't ever consent to anything! Why is it people can subject cows to horrible treatment, kill them, even eat them, but not have sex with them? Even the crazy laws ought to be consistent, don't you think?
On the other hand, why anyone would want to do a cow is beyond my imagination.
To be frank, the risk of media attention is the primary reason I'd never commit a crime. I really don't care whether I pay (morally speaking) for some stupid thing when I'm at a big store. I try; I can think of all kinds of reasons to care that are very good reasons, but I simply don't care. But there's a small part of me that thinks if I don't pay, the curtains will all rise the moment I near the exit; bells and music will play, cameramen will jump out of nowhere, and some TV personality will confront me with scolding words. Millions will be watching. Just as I try to explain like a bumbling idiot how it was all some big accident, a team of cops will tackle and taser me until I am writhing on the floor drooling foam. My screams of "WHY????" will be heard on Youtube by millions, and probably will be made into an online music video.
So I pay.
On a note: how is that legal? I could swear that entrapment laws prevent cops from making up phony crime opportunities just to lure in would-be criminals. Not only that, but these poor guys (yes I know they're pedophiles, but honestly I still feel bad for them) get paraded like spectacles in front of millions of people, often naked. It's like we've reached a moral climate where as long as a person is really bad, we're somehow allowed to do anything we want to that person as punishment. Really, how is that any different from an old fashioned tarring/feathering?
Finally, there's Drudgereport, and the way it takes what were formerly small local stories and turns them into media sensations. Remember the lady who "found" a finger in her Wendy's chili? That was Drudgereport.
And then there's this guy: http://cbs3.com/topstories/officer.robert.melia.2.706410.html who has recently been charged for having sex with cows. There's a picture, even his last name. I could phone the guy if I wanted to. And the interesting part is that he (in fact none of these people) hasn't been convicted of anything! Nobody has! We treat suspects as guilty the moment their disheveled photos hit the screen. "Well of COURSE he did it, it's all over the news!" We reason...
On another note, I don't think it should count as animal cruelty if the cow enjoyed it, or at least didn't mind. Sure, the thing can't consent, but hell it can't ever consent to anything! Why is it people can subject cows to horrible treatment, kill them, even eat them, but not have sex with them? Even the crazy laws ought to be consistent, don't you think?
On the other hand, why anyone would want to do a cow is beyond my imagination.
To be frank, the risk of media attention is the primary reason I'd never commit a crime. I really don't care whether I pay (morally speaking) for some stupid thing when I'm at a big store. I try; I can think of all kinds of reasons to care that are very good reasons, but I simply don't care. But there's a small part of me that thinks if I don't pay, the curtains will all rise the moment I near the exit; bells and music will play, cameramen will jump out of nowhere, and some TV personality will confront me with scolding words. Millions will be watching. Just as I try to explain like a bumbling idiot how it was all some big accident, a team of cops will tackle and taser me until I am writhing on the floor drooling foam. My screams of "WHY????" will be heard on Youtube by millions, and probably will be made into an online music video.
So I pay.
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