rapists and

> destruction by randomly murdering innocent people. But still you wonder 'did
> he have a bad childhood' 'did his mommy spank him' and stuff like that. But
> these things are irrelevant to the matter at hand which was to find him and
> stop him using all means available.

Actually, I heard that he wanted to kill his ex-wife, but make it look
like one of a string of random killings.

> I feel the same way about rapists. Was the woman dressing provocatively?
> Well that's what the rapist tells us! He was 'provoked' into doing it. He
> 'couldn't control himself'. She 'made him do it'. So was the victim
> responsible? Did she bring it upon herself? So frikkin whatt if she WAS
> dressed provacatively in the rapists opinion. It doesn't change the FACT
> that he is a deranged criminal who has commited an unspeakable act of
> violence. He must be stopped using all means available. Once he is safely
> locked away then we can have coffee with out friends and debate whether his
> mother didn't feed him enough or his father was a bad role model.

I think most people agree with this. No one's saying that Osama Bin Laden
is a saint. He and his cronies committed crimes against humanity, and
they should be punished accordingly.

But you also have to look at the big picture. To use your example, if
rape is becoming a huge problem in society, then, besides dealing legally
with the rapists, (lockin' em up), you might also want to look at society
as a whole and think about why there's this huge problem, and what can be
done to alleviate it. After all, it would be better if society changed so
there were fewere rapists, rather than if there were more rapists, and the
jails just got more crowded, right? It would be preferable to have fewer
women raped, right?

Unfortuantely, the gov't (any gov't, pretty much) doesn't see things that
way. For example, the drug problem. Rather than pour money into
education, they build more jails. Rather than try to nip the problem in
the bud, they let the problem continue. This despite the fact that it's
statistically been shown that education, etc. works better than the
supposed "deterrence" of possible jail time.

Likewise, as I was saying earlier, is Islam the religion the problem? Is
that the one sole reason that these people attack the US? If so, then why
are they attacking US now, and not other Judeo-X-tian countries? Why
aren't they crashing into towers in Portugal, or Chile?