Comment on Christa Pike at 18 years old when she was sentenced to death. She is now 50 and they are supposed to kill her this week

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t beat a dog for its entire life and then act surprised when it kills someone.

  It’s not an excuse, beyond rumblings of materialist determination, but it is an explanation, and you should be asking yourself why this particular murderer has to die instead of all the others.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m never surprised about any crimes, certainly the mother shares a lot of responsibility in this, but as a consequentialist I try to make the best use of my time to help the most people, and that does not include advocating for Christa because there are billions of better people more deserving of expending sympathy.

    Now, if you came to me and advocated for abolishing the death penalty and enhancing the reform system with free education, therapy, etc: I’m on board. But sure af not because of Christa.

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  • Poxlox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A dog won’t torture and get any pleasure from the explicit pain of an innocent for pain’s sake. Apples to oranges. Humans are fucked up lol

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• brackled@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The video doesn’t “try” to show her as anything it just captures a moment in court. You can attribute to it what you want. What I see is the extreme results of bipolar disorder after a lifetime of abuse and lack of treatment. It is a stark example of a society that failed their citizen. Here is someone who had enough humanity somewhere in their system to just cry and want a hug from someone they loved before facing the consequences. I’m not even bipolar but I don’t know what kind of human being I would be if I literally faced abuse since infancy.

  To me the video doesn’t take away the heinousness of the crime, it just brings into the focus how these types of situations aren’t always some cut and dry stereotypical “evil person does evil things”.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They chose to show this moment. They didn’t choose images of the evidence or the grieving family of the murdered child, they chose this. That’s “trying” real hard, in my book.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The lack of empathy you show here is similar to the lack of empathy that Christa Pike showed to her victim. You are not so different - but do you have the same traumatic childhood to explain your sociopathy?

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      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, I sincerely doubt Christa’s problem was Apathy. Christa likely felt a little too much emotion, like yourself. But the fact that we’re flinging that at each other like an insult kind of proves my point, no? Not sure how you missed that irony while typing your reply.

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