Man, I butchered my edited post above. LOL
8trackdisco wrote:So if I find myself drunk or high, flying through your Maryland neighborhood and kill your wife two of you kids and a neighbor, if I can get out of it by writing a check, you would be good with that?
What is the price tag? What magical dollar amount allows me to kill your family and get out of jail free?
You cut off my post. The question I answered related to my son being the perp... not an assailant murdering my family.
HockeyDad wrote:Don't. Give me that poor crap. This board is littered with upper middle class and upper class who like to masquerade as endangered species middle class because it is fashionable. Poor don't smoke cigars.
He did kill accidentally. He didn't run his car through a crowd of people on purpose. He didn't shoot anybody.
Maybe one day he'll cure cancer. Not if our noose-tieing crowd has their bloodlust satisfied.
bloody spaniard wrote:...I admitted that I would do all I could for him if he killed accidentally. Intentional murder? No. BUT I'd spring for an insanity plea & have him treated and committed but not before I gave him a thorough ass whuppin' and offered to make some sort of restitution to the families VOLUNTARILY.
Can't be any plainer than that, HD. You think we is all phoney baloney, enraged, poor wannabees looking for payback from a system running on 3 tires?
Think Lemmee mull that one over. In the meantime, like Z6 said, use the legal system to squeeze the perps family before they hide the cash...(cough cough Goldman vs OJSimpson cough cough)
Now to answer your question, there would be no magical price tag if it were done to my family. If it were an accident, I'd probably be angry, forgive, and then feel sorry for him. He's wrecked his life & will be tormented to some degree unless he's a psychopath and has no inner voice. The law would do the rest and there would be an even greater judgement eventually awaiting him. If on purpose, as was done to a relative (you know the details), I'd be angry again and then probably forgive again just as I did in real life. My family thought I was nuts. So be it.
I would have answered this question differently years ago but I've come to a point in my life where I understand the uselessness of hate and anger and the inevitability of a just resolution either here on earth or afterwards. Not trying to be a pollyanna just trying to speak honestly from the heart about a situation I can only conjecture.