Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand

[BALKAN]

I can't stand the "rules are rules" argument as I can't stand any argument that paints the world in black & white.

The question should be: is justice really being served?

I'm not sure putting a bullet in the head of those 2 men is really justice.

 

[Gough]

Some sort OT blood justice perhaps.
Ten years is about bang on for heroin struggling, they should be looking at getting released now, not shot.

 

[Rough_Edges]

I don't understand why people choose to run around the busy footpaths of the City during 11-3.

Surely there are better places to run.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I don't understand what these dickwads think Tony Abbott can do about it

 

[BALKAN]

I don't understand what these dickwads think Tony Abbott can do about it

Curse you for bringing this video into my life. What is it with Aussie 'celebs' and being consistently cringeworthy?

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

They did though.

That is their law. You break their rules, you suffer their consequences.

Doesn't meant that it's right. I don't defend drug smugglers but nor do I defend the death penalty.

 

[Cruyff14]

Doesn't meant that it's right. I don't defend drug smugglers but nor do I defend the death penalty.

Not saying I agree with it, but it's the reality of it.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

I don't understand what these dickwads think Tony Abbott can do about it

What a bunch of idiots? What do they think Abbott can do that he hasn't already done? Would they still have made this video if we currently had a Labor government? I doubt it. Nothing other than a cheapshot. Pretty disgusting to politicise something as serious as this.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

So who are these people defending the drug smugglers you are talking about? I think you'll find most of them are like me, don't defend either. Just because you don't want to see these two men shot does not equate to defending drug smugglers.

 

[Off The Couch]

I don't understand why Australians are defending drug smugglers.

I don't believe they are defending drug smugglers - if they were they would be advocating for their release and they are not. I don't think anyone deserves to be executed and imo its political grandstanding because it's predominately foreigners that are being executed and if he was serious about it then this guy would be standing alongside them tonight


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-pair-prepare-brutal-death-firing-squad.html

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Not just that - people who live here in general and bang on about how much they hate Australia.

If they don't like it nobody is forcing them to stay.

Is the real patriot the one who has the jingoistic "we're great" attitude, or the one who points out the perceived failings and wants things made better?

Few really hate Australia (and some are forced to stay here because they have no rights to live elsewhere). Many hate, or at least disapporve of, aspects of Australia - and of any other country.

 

[craigos]

The amount of stupid threads people create on bigfooty.

 

[Off The Couch]

People who post in stupid threads telling them how stupid the thread is

 

[Quivorir]

Stupid.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Stupid.

Now, "stupid" is something I do understand - and live on a daily basis.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

You go to a country and break their laws, you get what they give.

Why is that so hard to understand? Do you walk into someone else's house, steal their yoghurt, get caught and try to tell them they have no right to have you arrested for trespassing?

 

[BALKAN]

Terrible analogy

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Terrible analogy

No it's not.

"My home. My rules."

Indonesia's home. Their rules. Suck it up, princess.

 

[Quivorir]

Just want to point out there is also laws which should have prevented them being executed murdered. Why is it okay to select which ones to follow then?

 

[JuddsABlue]

No it's not.

"My home. My rules."

Indonesia's home. Their rules. Suck it up, princess.

There is a difference between someones domestic home and a country

A country has a responsibility to a large variety of citizens and non citizens, a home doesn't. A home doesn't have laws, it has rules. The laws of a home are dictated by the laws of the country.

A country must act justly in accordance with human rights, as must a home. You would not be excused for killing somebody in your home for eating your yoghurt, and a country also cant be excused for killing rehabilitated men.

Indonesia have declared that their justice system does not care for rehabilitation and is for punishment and retribution only, where does that put them in comparison to first, second and third world countries? Its a very dark stance to have that doesn't belong in modern day

 

[Hudu Gurusingha]

Thing I dont understand is that 10000 people have died in Napal, including Australians but I turn on the news and its all about the execution of 2 criminals. The government would have spent a lot of money trying to get them off, but have only given $4 million in aid to Nepal. That's about the price of a couple of houses in Peppermint Grove.

 

[ioppolo]

Thing I dont understand is that 10000 people have died in Napal, including Australians but I turn on the news and its all about the execution of 2 criminals. The government would have spent a lot of money trying to get them off, but have only given $4 million in aid to Nepal. That's about the price of a couple of houses in Peppermint Grove.

Stuff like this is why I have a lot of apathy towards the news and world events. People say I should care more, I say I'll only get angry and frustrated, and I'd rather not.

 

[JUBJUB]

People who post in stupid threads telling them how stupid the thread is

 

[TheFreshBanana]

No it's not.

"My home. My rules."

Indonesia's home. Their rules. Suck it up, princess.

So you execute people for stealing your yoghurt?

 

[Beerfish]

So you execute people for stealing your yoghurt?

Well they saw the big sign on my fridge that said "Welcome to my fridge. Death to yoghurt stealers!" and yet they still chose to steal my yoghurt..