South Park creators given signed photo of Saddam Hussein

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

As with Alex, I have no sympathy for Saddam in the situation, nor do I consider the act particularly heinous on a relative scale. And, were Matt and Trey to have thought of it and put it in an episode of South Park as a theoretical situation, I would have laughed at it. But faced with the reality of an individual who chooses to act like that, I don't find it amusing, I find it cowardly and pathetic.

If one of those soldiers happened to be sitting next to me in a bar and told me how he'd sat and laughed at Saddam while showing him the movie just to rub it in Saddam's face, I would have thought, "Wow, this guy is a fvking prick, I want nothing to do with him."

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

And again, I post in this thread with nothing to say but "I agree." On all counts. Is it the worst thing ever? Of course not. Is it dickish and lame? In the context of a real-life situation, yes.

I have nothing to add but "well said".

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a great study.

I still prefer jailhouse justice take care of him then the prison guards being dicks just because they can.

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My criminal law professor said something similar: that a system of private vengeance would result in a more justly administered death penalty than the current system where we express our collective will, which tends to drag in considerations like race, class and the Faces-of-Death-watching impulse to see another human being suffer.