Comments | ratcreature: a brief rant

ratcreature

a brief rant

Dec 10, 2009 16:35

( Sort of a minor Criminal Minds spoiler, but not really about the plot )

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Comments 7

_bettina_ December 10 2009, 18:32:23 UTC

I agree, it bothers me too.

ratcreature December 10 2009, 19:31:58 UTC

It's a consolation that at least I'm not alone.

_bettina_ December 10 2009, 21:26:13 UTC

On some level I can understand the reaction, but still. I'm just not an eye for an eye kind of person. They should be punished, but not like that.

ratcreature December 10 2009, 21:46:26 UTC

I think part of what bothers me is how often all kinds of tv law enforce types threaten with that and how often it is referred to as if it was just to be expected in prison, so it is made seem as if this was by systematic design rather than a catastrophic breakdown of a prison system. If it was just one law enforcement character in an extreme situation harboring revenge fantasies it would be one thing, but this makes them look as if they collaborate with this state of affairs.

lazar_grrl December 10 2009, 19:23:10 UTC

Caught in a paradoxical agree/disagree here. I most definitely agree that prisoners should not be subject to rape or beatings while in prison. However...I work with abused women and children. And every time I see one of them sobbing, a very nasty part of my soul wants the people who abused them to have the same hell inflicted on them. I find it difficult to care about their human dignity when they act to take away that dignity from someone else.

It's an intellectual/emotional divide that I think a lot of people (including last night's CM character) have. I don't think that she truly wants him to be brutalized in prison. But I do think she wants him to live in the same fear that he subjected those women to. Not exactly defendable, but very understandable.

ratcreature December 10 2009, 19:37:37 UTC

I can see where it was supposed to be emotional and I could have maybe gone with Prentiss having that immediate reaction after seeing that victim and subduing the guy, but all the others in the room just stood by and let her have his emotional rant at the their prisoner when he was already secure? Why didn't step Morgan in saying that it was enough or something? They all seemed to condone this.

lazar_grrl December 10 2009, 19:47:45 UTC

Why wouldn't they? Having just pulled a terrified victim out, having just attended the funeral of a woman they all knew, murdered by someone like that? At that point, I think it's understandable. Morgan's been molested, Reid and Prentiss have been held captive and tortured; I think they may all have more sympathy for the victim than the victimizer.