Reight. What about this then?

A crime is no less a crime for the passage of time?

You're really angry about something to start with but then, after a period of time, you calm down.

"Water under the bridge."

"It was a long time ago."

"Move on." That kind of thing.

But for that to be right your reaction was, at some point, wrong wasn't it? What's how long ago it was got to do with it? If I do you a wrong and evade you long enough am I right to expect you to forget it?

 

Forgive and forget

Unless ...........

 

What if it wasn't actually wrong.

You just think it was wrong and threw your toys out of the pram.

The courts told you that you were wrong, but you still decided to send a lynch mob to beat up the innocent and then got upset when the police stopped you.

 

No!

Depends on the gravity of the wrong</p>

If it's a book or a video that wasn't returned then I might get over it  ... given time.</p>

But serious intentional and hurtful wrongdoing fully deserves its rightful payback in my book - no matter how long it takes.</p>

 

In the case of Thatcher

She'll never be forgotten - alive or dead</p>

 

Subjectively speaking I guess that's the way most of us would go.

So we have to decide the severity of the crime before we decide which list it goes on.
















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Well spotted.

It was indeed the debate re the old witch that led me to that question.

 

Do owt wrong to me and mine,

be prepared for some payback! PERIOD!

 

Can i go to sleep now?

YAWN!(shithappens)

 

Politics is different

Unless you are talking about deliberate and intended murder</p>



a la Adolf, Saddam, Milosove   .... Miloshove .. Milo  .....  Bugger!</p>

 

Does payback

make the crime go away?

Revenge only fuels the hatred and prolongs the hurt.

 

Payback

Is satisfying! You may say that payback breeds payback. It all depends on the serverity of the initial payback (battered) (RIP)

 

RE: Payback

How much more pain do you endure tho' in the process of payback?

Do two wrongs really make a right?

 

Ah but.

You've already said, "It depends on the gravity of the wrong."

Now assuming you're saying it's the wronged party who gets to decide on the gravity (we're not going to allow the perpetrator to make that decsion are we?) then who are you or I to say what his decision should be reagrding gravity OR category? Why should a wrong done via politics be exempt? The hardship caused was just as bad and she knew what she was doing. The effects were just the same as if she'd walked into your house every day, turned off the heating and emptied the larder.

 

As i said

It all depends on the severity of the initial payback. Ask him who stole my bro's car some years back.

 

RE: Payback

What exactly do we mean here by payback?</p>

 

Very good.

The old ton of bricks.

And word gets round.

 

RE: Ah but.

When people have a country to run, an economy to manage and all the savage dealings nationally and internationally that go wrong - they have to make what they see as the right decision for the time. It's not solely them either, but the whole cabinet / government.</p>

I am not saying the things she did were wholly right or wholly wrong, but if every leader / government was held both to account and payback for its actions, nobody would ever apply for the job.</p>

Then we would all REALLY experience injustice and wrong.</p>

 

RE: Ah but.

Didn't the electorate decide on the gravity of the wrong in 83 and 87?

 

That's the crux of the matter.

Her actions weren't for the benefit of the nation, if they had been, or if she'd believed them to be, she could be forgiven. They were vindictive and heartless.