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Originally Posted by station
Do you guys actually know what empathy means? It’s the ability to understand how someone is feeling from their perspective.
This incident and trial contain racial tensions. You can deny it and say it’s not right but it’s there.
Regardless of circumstances, criminal or not, a young man lost his life and the perpetrator won his freedom on a technicality. A family and a community now feel the pain of injustice and can we really blame them?
You can declaim about the fairness of the trial and the justice system, you can pour over the minutiae of the incident to justify the veridict, you can breathlessly bemoan liberal media, and you can rant about criminals and self defence, but seriously what is the point? What is to be gained?
Tensions are high, emotions are high. We have a checkered history (at best) with indigenous relations and overt racism still exists in modern (especially rural) Canada. Maybe we could just stop and listen for a minute, you know?
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How about empathy for Mr. Stanley and his family. Their lives were forever changed when a rolling crime spree made its way onto his property that day. The crime spree could have ended in any number of negative outcomes; a car crash because they were all severely intoxicated and driving a vehicle with a flat tire, being arrested because they were committing numerous crimes, being shot by police because they had a loaded firearm in the car. And thats not to even mention the potential harm to persons in the public and property of innocent residents. The participants in the crime spree made decisions to act in the manner they did. They chose to commit crimes and put themselves and others at risk. Mr. Stanley didnt wake up that morning and decide to go on a crime spree. He was put in a dangerous situation that he didnt chose to be in.