When people choose inaction when right demands action I think it is the worst kind of sin. When people in power and authority turn their backs on doing what is right it really makes me angry. When people in law enforcement deny ability to act when the law is clear that someone is causing harm and deserves punishment I become LIVID.
Do I care why someone is breaking the law and harming others..... not so much. Especially when those being harmed have no voice of their own. Especially when those being harmed are small children. Do I care that the one harming them has had a hard life.... not so much. There are many people who have hard upbringings, who have bad starts in life, who have had nothing and have been abused. Not all of them act out by harming others. Not all of them feel no remorse and claim that the horrid acts they have committed are fine. When the abused become the abuser the cycle must be broken.
Some people I know are struggling with what is right. They have appealed to their church, their law enforcement and social services.... They have been denied help. They need to push and shove and demand and advocate. The stand they take may not make them more popular, or be easy, but it may save two children who need their help. It may even help the abuser though I have no faith in our system's ability to rehabilitate sexual offenders.
Our justice system has systematically and historically valued the lives of our children LESS THAN that of an adult. The penalties for crimes against children are shorter and less severe. YOU WOULD THINK that those that harm those with no defense would be punished the greatest....
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