This doesn't really bug me, as I'm not the one who was raped, so yeah.

If only we took that same stance on everything.  "Well, the Holocaust was bad and all, but I wasn't killed in it, so, why do I care?"

A world callously indifferent to one another's pain.  I've dreamed of that world for so long....

We're already there.

Death is the worst thing that can happen to a person, and she's still alive. I'm not backing up what these sickos did; what they did is absolutely fucking disgusting, and I think they should be punished for this despicable act. But by this post I can conclude that you're completely incapable of logical thinking. An eye for an eye is barbaric, and we do not live in a barbaric society anymore. Grow up.

No it isn't. The discomforts of death are suffered chiefly by those who are still alive. The person who is actually dead is just... dead. Considering there's no prolonged pain and no traumatization, I think you're just revealing the limited fount of your experience with that statement. We have no way of knowing the sensation of death without dying. Sure, there are worse ways of dying than others, and we as a culture have a great fear and awe of Death, but there's no way that death is the most horrible thing that can happen to a person.
Also yeah, putting a girl in prison for robbery with 20 criminal men isn't barbaric at all.

Explain that to the families of the people you'd gladly have executed.

As soon as you point me towards a post where I made that statement, or anything implying it.

Well, you clearly think that executing people isn't such a big problem anyway, because it's "not all that bad". That's not going to change, despite the fact you don't seem to want to apply that principle to this case.

Um, hi, all I said on the matter in this thread is that it is unlikely that death is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I'm still waiting for the specific post that you're referring to.

Oh hell. More bad news.

Yea, sick world we live in. Stupid people. yada yada.

you know i read this a few hours ago and I've been thinkin about that poor girl and just how she will probably never have a happy or care free life in the future regardless of getting a boyfriend, girlfriend husband/wife whatever. Even if she does someone traumatized like that will have a hard time having a relationship...It really just pisses me off that people do that, I mean men face the same troubles if they are weak and thrown in jail (i.e. a weak man thrown in for child rape will be raped as if he was said 15 year old girl. Not the same situation, but an adequate example to my point). So I guess you could figure that in America they would do the same thing with a 15 year old male and jail him with full grown if his crime is ridiculously bad, not stealing mind you though. But in holding cells he can still be raped, most criminals stuck in overnight holding cells don't care about life and will rape a young kid who's stuck there overnight anyway. I don't know I want to feel bad for the girl and I sincerely do but I can't help but figure she shouldn't have played around in committing crimes anyway. I mean she'll obviously never do it again but something, a very small part of me, wonders why human nature is so drastic towards one side. No one feels bad for killers or pedophiles, male or female, if they are raped in jail by their own sex. But when something like this happens we all flip out and feel so horrible for the girl. Why is that? Personally I only feel bad cause of her age and the fact she won't have a single normal relationship from here on out, but its more then that honestly. I'm human I feel bad cause shes a girl. But not a single person here can say they would feel the same about a male raped, they would feel bad but not equally. And many would say he deserved it for breaking the law, no one I personally know or even myself but some people have outrageous views towards criminals and what they deserve, not saying they are a bad person or not. Sorry I sorta rambled on the subject...