Ariel Castro, who held 3 women captive in Cleveland, kills self in cell

What are you on about? I’m not saying anything of the sort, you made that up yourself for me to say. I’m not het up enough to be spouting nonsense like that.
I said ‘quite likely’. It’s also quite likely that he was just a horrible, evil fuck. We’ll never know either way now, though. My point was, I object to the childish phrase ‘bad guys’, and agree that the way that crime, and its solutions are portrayed in our media skew our frame of reference, and make it difficult to deal with such touchy subjects rationally.
I do, very firmly, believe that how we act, even in the treatment of the most depraved criminals, reflects on us as a society, and that rejoicing in more death, or taking more lives is detrimental to everyone. I’ve had some horrible shit be done to me, and one of the people who did that is now dead. Didn’t mean I rejoiced, though I wasn’t sad, I’ll admit.
I think it’s a shame Castro managed to kill himself than to have to serve his sentence, as it goes. I don’t think he was gonna cure cancer while he was there, mind.

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