jeffwAug 5, 2024

Crowd Cheers as Convicted Rapist is Eliminated in Olympic Beach Volleyball

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Crowd Cheers as Convicted Rapist is Eliminated in Olympic Beach Volleyball - Lemmy.World

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Show threadGuntriggerAug 5, 2024

I’m very conflicted about this whole thing. On the one hand, yeah it’s kind of a scandal and people have every right to be booing him every time he touches the ball.

On the other hand, he was convicted, sentenced, did time and is now back in society apparently showing remorse. People are calling for his career to end and various wishes of death on him. Why can’t he continue his life?

Are we supposed to lock up all criminals forever? Kill them? Just not allow them to follow their chosen career after getting out? Or is it just sports they shouldn’t be allowed to participate in?

Show threadTheMetaleekAug 5, 2024
He did barely a year of prison… I personally don’t quite think it’s enough for raping a kid, but hey that’s just my opinion
Show threadJohandeaAug 5, 2024
Enough for what? Your sense of vengeance? I don’t know, only you can tell… Enough for rehabilitation? I don’t know, but it is possible. Time needed for rehabilitation varies widely. It’s quite possible the year was enough. One thing we do know is that the Netherlands is heavily in favour of rehabilitation over punishment, since rehabilitation actually forwards society
Show threadElliotCross
This site is full of left wing fakers who blow their cover when it comes to stuff like this.
Aug 5, 2024 at 9:59amWeb
Show threadfine_sandy_bottomAug 5, 2024
I think a lot of users are just very young, and the light of idealism hasn’t left their eyes.
Show threadfriendlymessageAug 5, 2024
Your pretentious pseudo-enlightened bullshit pisses me of. No, not everyone here is out for vengeance. But there’s a middle ground between capital punishment and letting a child rapist go after only 13 months without them expressing remorse plus letting them represent their country at the Olympics. Travelling to another country to convince a 12 year old to have unprotected sex three times in two days, leading them to self-harm including and overdose is not “fornication”, it’s rape. This is not rehabilitation but a blatant failure of the Dutch justice system and society.
Show threadyamaniiAug 6, 2024
Plenty are though, just scroll up.
Show threadfriendlymessageAug 6, 2024
True, Breezy is just one example. But that’s not the ones they were discussing with.