Woman Spares Man Who Blinded Her With Acid

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Imagine someone takes Gabriella Gifford to Jared Loughners jail cell.  There is a gun pointed at his head, and the police tell her that she has the right to have Jared shot in the head, so that he can experience what she did.  They will try to just shoot off part of his skull, so that he will survive with brain damage. Is that a fair position in which to put Ms Gifford?  Should she have to publicly decide between her sense of justice and personal outrage, or public show of womanly compassion?   Is this a psychologically healthy way to deal with the victims anger--- force her to choose between the assailants torture (so that she becomes like him) or "forgiveness" before knowing how or if he will be punished by law? This is a total no win scenario, and deeply emotionally abusive to the victim; more so in a society where there is real doubt that he will be incarcerated for any length of time.  In a belief system that states the relative value of women to be much less than that of a man,  he may yet become a hero in his comrades eyes.  She may have also had to factor her family's safety into the decision. I doubt this man will appreciate her compassion---in his mind, he is entitled to treat women however he wants.  He may blubber convincingly for his own eye, but he will never shed a tear for hers.  I think he is a sociopath, and this little drama will convince other fundy sociopaths that women are weak minded, and a few minutes of grovelling  will get you off the hook, just like it did with mommy. He will respect her less, not more, because she let him off the hook. 

More Muslim buffoonery. I love the diaper and I bet the classmates do too. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329398/Blind-woman-buys-guide-HORSE-strict-Muslim-parents-consider-dogs-unclean.html

This guy must be in jail. It's the only way I can figure that the males in her family have not taken this saddist out of the world. Her forgiveness is to be admired and commended. On the flip side I do remember warning a woman that if she did to some other man what she did to me, who loved her deeply, that her action could cause a man to kill her in a blind rage flash, with no thought at all, Just reaction .......without remorse. There are such provocations. She was mudered about 12 yrs later. Burned alive. There are such provocations.