I have been given the instruction and advice, by my incredible wife, that my Biblical analogy was lacking and unclear. I never intended to cast the mother in the 'innocent' role of Jesus or her child in the role of Barabbas. So, Kevin, I now understand why you picked on that small piece of my original post. It is my opinion that all those posters calling for her imminent destruction, based on this video, were not unlike the mob who screamed for Jesus' crucifixion not knowing the first thing about Him or the case against Him. The mob mentality wants what it wants facts bedamned. That video is little better than what they had yet this thread sounds like the roar of the crowd calling 'crucify Him, crucify Him'.
A better analogy might have been the 'woman caught in adultery'. I wasn't thinking so much of the Toogood woman as I was the principles involved. This thread began with the most inflammatory rhetoric, right out of Al Quaeda's version of the Koran. (Don't ask me what the real version is. I don't care.) I found the blameless principals of 'presumption of innocence' and 'due process' as being sacrificed for emotional gratification. I guess that makes 'sinful nature' the Barabbas of that analogy.
Am I outraged that people beat children? The harshest of you wouldn't want to see my reaction to it. The most sadistic of you wouldn't enjoy seeing me struggle to curb that reaction.
But I'm on FR to explore the rights and wrongs of government, not every sinner in the world. And common sense dictates that government cannot solve all the problems of all the people. Asking it to will inevitably cause us all far more problems. Neither of you two, IMO, believe that. Statists! And I do not slur you by that because you have both proven with your words time and time again that you do believe that government should control all behaviour. And will again. Sorry for the confusion.
The moral of his story is we must never experience any moral outrage about anything except moral outrage.
Lame, CJ. This is just lame. Work on your strategery.