Station Nightclub Tragedy, my take...
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| Wed, 09-20-2006 - 10:22pm |
I tend to think too much about things I have no direct link to, so sorry for posting about such a sad topic but I just can't stop thinking about this and so I thought I'd share....
Station Nightclub tragedy, long story short, 100 people died because there was fire during a concert, pyrotechnics they are called.
Tonight we hear that the one of the owners will not go to jail. When I personally heard this, I didn't think it was that bad. Now let me explain, I feel horrible for those who lost someone that day, I really do. But I also have compassion and forgiveness for those owners of the nightclub. I believe that they didn't set out that night or any night for that matter with the intention of killing anyone, so why really should they go to jail? I wouldn't and couldn't, call me a bleeding heart liberal, I've been called worse, but I just couldn't hate anyone even if they were responsible for a one of my family members death. I love my family I just also have the ability to feel compassion for those who made a wrong decision. Haven't we all made wrong decisions? I'm not any better than anyone else. My boyfriend cannot understand me, so here I spell out my feelings on the guilty and the victims because I know there has to be others in this world who have the ability to feel bad for those who didn't mean to hurt anyone but did. Right? I'm not just too compassionate? I read a lot, I went to school, I've had losses in my life, so its not like I'm ignorant or never felt pain. I have but I don't believe I would ever ever ever get on the stand and be able to personally blame someone for taking away a loved one, not unless it was a direct murder, like for instance a stabbing or a shooting for no apparent reason but to murder. I just feel so different from the whole world in that I feel bad for both parties and I just don't think prison is the proper punishment when someone didn't really mean to hurt others.....am I making any sense here? I don't know, I've been told I'm too emotional and stuff but I really feel bad for both parties in a lot of cases. I don't mean any disrespect to anyone, of course if someone takes away a loved one from you, you have a right to testify against that person or persons but how can you want them to suffer too? Isn't that wrong to want another person to suffer, isn't there enough of that already? I guess what I'm trying to say is, I would forgive. Why can't some people forgive? Now not to bring up another touchy subject but its related, I feel this way on my own thinking, I'm not religious and sometimes I don't even believe in a God, so its not coming from that, I just feel that if someone hurts me or a loved one, I need to forgive that person so that I can heal. and I would want that person to get help, perhaps some prison time depending on the crime but I wouldn't, couldn't want that person to suffer or I wouldn't get upset if they didn't get a long sentence. Does this make sense?

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Oh this is so sad ::sigh::
While it may not directly have been the owner's fault ..
Still his responsibilty to make sure
I understand your feelings, though I don't know if I could be as forgiving and kindhearted as you if someone I love were taken from me.
As I understand it, though, the owner of the club had chained the exit doors shut to keep people from sneaking in, and that's why so many died. He should have gotten some sort of punishment for doing that, as blocking a fire exit is against the law.
I do agree, though, that in most cases, prison time doesn't teach anything. I don't know what the answer is, but in many cases, some other alternative to prison should be found.
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