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Originally Posted by Sid Squid
I have nothing but sympathy for the father, (and indeed for the entire family), but I'm struggling to understand why we are having this awful occurrence paraded about as a reason to later any legislation, I can't begin to imagine how I would feel in their position but I am entirely aware that he, and anyone else in that position, cannot possibly be objective, and that while this chap holds to his one dimensional crusade and casts about for a blamehound, the law may well be changed such that all are affected very probably to no benefit in that, and many other horrible situations.
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This is my stance. The whole principle on which our legal system is founded is a distant, dispassionate, uninvolved party acting as an arbiter for the simple reason that very few "victims" (and this includes those close to them) can come anywhere near to objectivity on the subject of how they have been wronged. The situation is made all the worse when the media plays this emotional angle and any detractors to this approach, particulary those making this criticism when the victim is present, are seen as heartless ****s.