Teen kills disabled girl, plays DDO to "forget"

They may try the insanity defense.

*killing, THEN raping...

@veil

yup, sicko.

@bobfish. Really? I remember reading about some idiot in England playing a game then going on a rampage with a Katana, or a man in China or some Asian country shooting a taxi driver in the face because he wanted to see if it was like GTA.

The world is filled with stupid people.

@ bobfish

Your idiotic comment was rendered even more idiotic by the inclusion of a smiley face.

I really don't see what gaming has to do with it at all. You don't see headlines like "Boy murders girl then drinks at a bar," or "Husband murders wife then watches tv to forget."

First bobfish, "Let the guy cook" is not unique to America, but also practised in Iran, China and a few other countries who crime and punishment mechanics are stuck in the Dark Ages.

And second, as pointed by Joker...that psycho nuts going psycho nuts is also not unique to America either. But also practised by the unhing'd in the UK, Germany, China, etc.

So you're horribley wrong in both accounts.

Absolutely true, you're exactly correct. In the 80's there were those trying to convince people satanists were behind every tree, and heavy metal music was some kind of gateway-drug to it, all kinds of insanity being spewed by the mad fear-mongers. Unfortunately that kind of simply minded blame (and fear) mongering is very alive and well! This individual is obviously mentally un-well, period, why he is so is the question, but no computer game is responsible (and being "born-again" isn't going to cure it. Though some of the same people who are going to say the games, and the occult and satanic worship they believe it inspires are responsible will try and say that the games directly influenced him to this.). This kind of simple-minded blame mongering goes back to the old arcade games before computer games, older people on this site can remember when it was those wicked fighting games that were somehow responsible for all the evils and violence in society... People don't want to really think about the real evils of society, the real sources of the mental illnesses, the violence, etc. The poverty, the lack of education opportunities, lack of hope, way violence is depicted, these things create a nihilism that can lead to these tradgedies.

Actually, back in the 80's they thought that gaming (in the way we mean it today, just without a computer) made you murder people and/or commit suicide.

http://video.yume.vn/video-clip/60-minutes-on-dungeons-dragons-1985-part-1.tuhai82.35A9AF1B.html

And torturing people makes you better than the criminal exactly HOW?

You know, torturing a murder isn't in any way better than torturing innocent children.

I like to figure out that he actually did it first before applying anything to him in the "name of justice."

And let's hope that dudemanjac does not run for any public office in the meantime. :(

Well of course figure it out. I didn't think that needed to be included. And let's hope someone as progressive as me does get in some day. As long as you're not out raping and killing, you have nothing to worry about on my planet.

Um...no thankyou, dudemanjac. Raping and kiling the rapers and killers is still raping and killing. You just shifted it from the perps to the state...but actually haven't solved anything.

Furthermore, the justice system should be about mediating out justice not revenge. Anything less than that becomes fascism (read: a state that rapes and kills). And I much prefer to live in a democracy, instead...even if we have to deal with the occasional unhing'd citizen. Just saying...

We don't know that it won't solve anything. It's never been tried. Our current system doesn't seem to be getting much done. And it's not revenge. It's punishment. But hey, no one said we have to agree. Your opinions will still be allowed when I'm running things. They'll even be encouraged. Laughed at, but still encouraged.

Would it be okay if we just executed him and left out the raping part? I'll even bend a little and give him a nice humane death like we would give man's best friend or another valued furry member of the family.

@dudemanjac - Actually, it *has* been tried. Saudi Arabia (and a few other Islamic countries I believe) have laws that allow victims to demand that criminals receive the same injuries that they did.

A group of men cut off one woman's nose, and she could have demanded that their noses be removed. One man was blinded and I believe that he asked that the perpetrator have his eye plucked out. And I *know* that there has recently been a case where a man was paralyzed from a knife wound to the spine - the victim is asking for retribution and the courts have found ONE hospital willing to go in surgically and sever the nerves as to paralyze the perpetrator in a similar manner.

So yes, it *has* been tried. In fact, it is going on right now. So...Saudi Arabia has your ideal justice system?