Comments on: Heroes and Villains http://badmetaphor.net/2009/03/heroes-and-villains/ (my life in parenthetical statements) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cai http://badmetaphor.net/2009/03/heroes-and-villains/comment-page-1/#comment-39341 Cai Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:53:29 +0000 http://badmetaphor.net/?p=1598#comment-39341 This makes it sound like their decision was random. The 'samaritans' didn't randomly choose this man to detain, and they didn't say "lets go rob someone" either. It was a concentrated effort to retrieve items after their 'victim' had appropriated them. When the police didn't help, the 3 men took matters into their own hands. Smart? No. Deserving of Probation? Yes Does that mean that they've turned completely into hardened criminals in the course of the year? Absolutely not. This makes it sound like their decision was random. The ‘samaritans’ didn’t randomly choose this man to detain, and they didn’t say “lets go rob someone” either.

It was a concentrated effort to retrieve items after their ‘victim’ had appropriated them. When the police didn’t help, the 3 men took matters into their own hands.

Smart? No.
Deserving of Probation? Yes
Does that mean that they’ve turned completely into hardened criminals in the course of the year? Absolutely not.

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