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Originally Posted by gabeeg
If it turns out they are guilty, they deserve never to see the light of day again, or breath free air. (If I were in favor of the death penalty this would be one instance considering the circumstances where a firing squad would be in order).
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Apparently this was planned and premeditated, which under US Military law does make them eligible for the death penalty - if the allegations are true and they are convicted.
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In defence of Drebbel, I dont think he is limiting the tragedy to that of a simple statistic but making the point that In a certain population...whatever the population you will have a certain percentage of bad apples. Like in a city or 150,000 people you may have 20 rapes and 15 murders in a year. Well, when you have 150,000 troops you are going to get similar statistics (actually the percentages of crimes commited are lower for military personel from what I have heard, when this was discussed during desert storm).
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If I lived in a city of 150,000 where the rape of a woman and killing of her family was so common as to be regarded as simply "a statistic" (that is, a norm) I would move. I live in a city of 180,000 and I don't think there's been a single rape/murder here in the 10 years that I've lived here so this behaviour is not normal to me. And there are nowhere even close to 20 rapes or 15 murders per year here. I would say that if things in your own societies have gotten this degenerate than perhaps you'd have been a lot smarter and better off to spend that $200 billion on fixing your own rape and murder problems rather than trying to fix someone elses.