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To: Rte66
I have held much of your attitude towards the Ramseys....but when you get right down to it, I can't believe a parent could garott their own child, then smash her head in and leave her in such a state, even if they only tried to "cover up" an accidental death of some kind......

that's what is holding me back from accusing them...

pertaining to John-boys's wild stories.......

Socialpaths and psychopaths live their lives in and out of reality.....pedophiles in particular are not always violent....sometimes they really think they are in love with whoever they're after....

now John-boy says he did this and did that with Jon Benet....in reality, she probably resisted so severely that he was violent with her, and ended up killing her...IF in fact it turns out he did do it.....

Rationalization.....

to this day, I think OJ Simpson really really thinks he was the battered one, and he probably really really thinks that he was only protecting himself like any he-man might when he slaughtered the mother of his children and the waiter from the restaurant......

even rapists will always argue that the woman or girl "wanted it bad" or some such nonsense...

1,058 posted on 08/23/2006 11:49:05 AM PDT by cherry (.)
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To: cherry

"I can't believe a parent could garott their own child, then smash her head in and leave her in such a state, even if they only tried to "cover up" an accidental death of some kind......"

That seems to be a sentiment of many on this forum. I have no idea if the Ramseys were or were not responsible. But the reasoning quoted above, used as an argument for why the Ramsesy COULDN'T have killed their child, is what I can't understand. Parents kill their children all the time...it's in the news frequently. Murderers, by their very nature, don't think like I do, so I don't project my reasoning onto them.

I think it's easy to get caught up in the wagon axle on this ligature thing. We don't even know for sure if that was the precipitating cause of death.

I can understand why someone wouldn't WANT to believe it, but it's hard to see why someone would logically deny it's possibility when there are numerous case histories of parents killing their children in multitudes of ways.

Using this logic, I could come up with all sorts of reasons why various crimes, being 'unimaginable', could not have occured. Something about that reasoning doesn't ring true to me.

Just a thought or two.


1,062 posted on 08/23/2006 12:02:30 PM PDT by ableLight
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