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My thoughts go out to the families and friends of the victims
Wasn't he a drug addict at some point? And shouldn't the GMC have struck him off then?
*runs away and hides from abuse about to begin*
LMAO
As for his drug problem, yes he was a pethedine (heroin derivative) addict. Drug addiction doesn't mean a doctor is automatically struck off though.
Let's not justify what he did. There is no evidence that anyone of the 215 people he murdered (with 45 more "possibles") had any kind of life threatening condition, in fact most were perfectly healthy. Let me ask you this, would you "be secretly relieved" if he took your parents today? I doubt it.
Most affected have said that they would expect to have their parents taken from them at some point, and there is always consolation in that, but the thought that they needn't have lost them yet must be hard to accept. Especially as there is no apparent motive.
What the inquiry concluded was that they were certain that he had killed 215 people, but that they weren't sure about another 45.
Oh, and according to his wife, he didn't kill anyone. Talk about "stand by your man" :rolleyes:
Not good in the slightest, and he should rot in jail forever, but everyone should atke a reality check and realise he certainly aint the worst guy to ever walk the earth.
Let the flaming commence...
Yes, I don't like them
Cant argue with logic like that :rolleyes:
You mean - can't argue with a twat like that. :rolleyes:
That doesnt make what he did any more acceptable, it just explains why hes not seen as such a monster by some people..
Aladdin, i dunno which papers youve been reading mate but Shipman was in the papers a huge amount when this story first came out. The reason it slowed down for a while was because we were awaiting confirmation of the investigations...Hes been all over the papers the last week or so....If theres a campaign to have him released then I guarantee you that he will be in the news as much, but probably a lot more, than hyndley.
Only one other person in the last few hundred years has killed more people, some guy from Mexico who strangled 300 young girls in the 1980's.
Yeah well, thats why i put it in inverted commas...The method he used was kind. He didnt use violence and he would have been talking kindly to them as they let him inject them without putting up a fight. Kind as in method, not motive.
Not everyone can be a supermodel, footballer, lawyer, scientist...its as much down to genetics as upbringing. After all, a child born with no legs isnt the same as a person with a fully-functional body.
Its futile to ry and work out what makes someone kill again and again, you cant start blaming others for behaviour like that.
It is believed that watching his Mum die a slow painful death through cancer is what triggered his actions. "Experts" who have reviewed the case believe he didn't want to see other people suffer and felt that involuntary euthanasia was a way of preventing that.
You can't put that down to society.
More a case of life giving a harsh lesson and him not reacting well.
Did he? There are some people who are genuinely amoral, i.e. have no concepts of right and wrong. In fact, head down to your nearest pit of poverty and you will find countless specimens of H. sapiens with varying degrees of amorality. Not immorality, but amorality. Moreover, even if Shipman did have a moral code, who is to say that it was the same as yours or mine? Someone can do wrong and believe him/herself to be doing right, you know.
Peoples moral codes come from social conditioning, and if an event messes up that social conditioning then his moral code will be different too. Thats why so many people thieve, rape and murder...a lot of them think its ok. Thats why so many abused children go on to abuse their own children.