Originally Posted by
Rutzor
There are loads of "sane" people complaining about Roman Polanski being held in a swiss prison atm, waiting to go back to trial in america, for a case of rape that he even admitted.
Why isnt anyone doing the same for Fritzl ? I mean, he's like the marathon man of incest and is about as famous as Polanski by now.
idfk. obviously those people are dicks. On the other hand Roman Polanski made a lot of movies that people probably like, so they are more likely to be sympathetic towards him (not saying that that is at all right, just a guess.) Joeseph Ftirzl never contributed anything to the world or culture, pluis his crimes were (again, not to say Polanski's arent bad) worse. Its a different thing to rape someone once than it is to lock them in a basement, rape them repeatedly, and father them however many children born of incest.
2000 years ago this all probably wouldnt have raised much of a shitstorm, but we like to think we have become civilized, and it IS a terrible thing to do someone, so the world got pissed.
Also, Guv Na, I didnt meant that the holloocoust was meh, what I meant was that if I RAGED every time someone died needlessly I would be RAGING every day, so as a defense mechanism my brain hardens itself to it to a certain degree. If I didnt make it "old news" I would go insane, and so would everyone. But things Im not used to, i.e. beating cats, Im not set up to block out yet.