[Russ]

Regardless of what she did, if anyone, EVER laid so much as a finger on my daughter they'd find themselves in a world of trouble.

Physical discipline is for the parents only.

IMO we don't want a justice system that people fear. We don't want punishments that deter people. What we need is to educate individuals on why certain behaviour is wrong. I refuse to believe that anyone is inherantly evil. They have picked it up from somewhere and the bad seed was planted.

Paedophiles for instance. If they were educated/supported/taught to supress their urges and not act on them, I'm sure things would be different. At the moment they live under the mistaken belief that they won't get caught, as do most criminals. By this point the object has been defeated.

Educate the people. Prevention is better than cure.

Current methods have failed. I'm not saying I have the magic solution but anything would be better than the vigilante mentality.