@firefly,
Quote:You are also locking up a pedophile.
Sorry but we do not lock up people because we can label them with a name like pedophile and therefore turn them into something less then human but we are at least suppose to punish people just for their misdeeds.
In fact he could had announced at the top of his voice that he is a pedophile on that plane and we would had have no right to lock him up.
He could had been reading the worst of the worst stories on that plane about sex between adults and children and the passenger could had taken a cell phone picture of him reading the text and he would not had been arrested.
Quote:And he shouldn't be near his own children unless supervised.
There is zero proof that he is or will be a direct danger to any child repeat any child less alone his own.
That is your problem Firefly without any proof that someone would go beyond looking at pictures you justify harsh and barbaric treatment under the unproven assumption that he is or will be a
child molester.
That is the base of your justification for such harsh punishments as you are not sitting the punishment to match the misdeed but to match what he and other people who look at such pictures might do in the future.
An it does not matter by your thinking as he is a pedophile after all so let lock him up for years using the excuse that he had look at some pictures.
However he is also a father and a highly train engineering professor going through the stress of a divorce and acting in a highly irrational manner by so openly looking at such highly illegal pictures and even allowing a passenger behind him to take pictures of him doing so.
Given the situation I am not even sure he is a pedophile but just a man having a break down where the pictures are a part of it.
In any case he should be punish for that crime and not for maybe at some future date becoming a child molester.
