Full story: The Daily Mail
For sure there are many things wrong with the MSN in this country, not least the obsession with ‘Celebrity’ or to fully report on our depredations by the ‘great and good’ , their continued enslavement to the political class. But if I started listing them, I'd be here all day and into Monday.
But this particular one has raised my dander for years. How can a robbery or burglary ‘go wrong’ when the initial act was in itself ‘wrong’
A stunt can ‘go wrong’ a prank can ‘go wrong’ even a plan can ‘go wrong’ . but surely if that original plan was commit an illegal act, a ‘wrong’ act it cannot ‘go wrong’.
Do you ever read ‘A householder was devastated after a burglary on his house went right’.? No you don’t. Yet to me by implication by saying ‘she was killed in a robbery or burglary that went wrong’ Is to say that it would have been OK apart from the fact that someone was killed.
“Oh pish and tosh Pavlov’s Cat” I hear you say “That’s not the point at all and you know it, you are just arguing semantics for the sake of it. Everybody knows that burglary and robbery are wrong”
Do they? Have you been reading the same things I’ve been reading in the last 2 weeks, because I'm afraid that it seems that not everybody does know that.
We have come to accept in this country as a matter of course a low level criminality as an occupational hazard and this is wrong. The reasons for it are myriad and I’m not going to start going into them now.
Whilst I am sure that the Oxygen thief that carried out this act did not intend for anybody to be killed, killed they were, in fact all because they decided to commit an illegal act. If they had decided not to ‘do wrong’ in the first place Judith Richardson would still be alive.
To my mind describing the brutal murder* of a pensioner as something that has merely ‘gone wrong’ is both a symptom and a cause and also an insult to the victim.
*I say murder as to my mind that is what it is, however as we know, murder is very hard to prove in our courts, so it will probably be reduced to manslaughter and maybe not even that.
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Yup, that one always sets my teeth on edge too....
It's a technical term, isn't it, like "friendly fire".
Well said, Cat!
It's a perfect manifestation of the poor reasoning ability and lazy journalism that characterises so much of our national press and, as such, well worth pointing out.
Have you thought of going into education? It's a pig of a job these days but someone's got to do it - and the country needs its young to be in the hands of people with high moral standards and the ability to think.
@Macheath sorry for the delayed response, the wireless went down and needed a hard reset, but the router was inaccessible till this morning.
Have you thought of going into education?
I have thought of it down the years, but the politics put me off and I'm sure you'd be reading about me in the Daily Mail the first time one of them told me to 'Fuck Off'.
I am also hampered by the fact that I don't have a degree and a 46 it's a bit too late to start from scratch.
If this period of unemployment stretches I am looking to take a PTTL course and maybe go into Adult Learning,
Damn good analysis and well worth saying over and over.
I believe you have spotted a corrosive little phrase which has been undermining us for years. It had got completely under my radar.
It is high time this was challenged as it subconsciously sets the ground out that 'he's a good lad, he just stabbed someone'.
No, he could have run away very fast. If he killed her (ok, if she killed her) there was a choice and that brings it within the scope of murder, not manslaughter.
(Incidentally, your arithmetic is not so good. Start now and you'll be finished at 50 and still have the thick end of 20 years to exploit it, due to rising retirement age.
People are always telling others that it is too late for this, that or the other. Maybe if you were 55 it would be cutting it fine, but you aren't. No point in standing there at 56 and saying "shucks, I wish I had done it ten years ago".)
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