Comments by "Widdekuu91" (@Widdekuu91) on "Insider News" channel.

For anyone wondering, these minks were going to be killed for their fur, and now they're killed because of covid. In both cases, it's awful and the minks should stop being bred for that purpose.
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@thunderb00m Locking someone up at the cost of that family's taxmoney, making sure the guy is mentally unstable and likely to kill again, making his life a living hell without him being able to take it back sounds like a very emotional choice, not a rational one.
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@apoloromero356 And you'd look better behind a curtain, but we're not putting curtains on your face against your will either, are we, Apolo? It's not all about looks, is it?
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@starshot5172 Not to mention, in normal cases of fur-harvest (I am assuming they got gassed in this case) but in normal fur-harvest circumstances, they get electrocuted in the bum so the fur doesn't get damaged. I mean, that's a horrific way to kill an animal, and the only reason is to wear their skin.
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@thunderb00m It's not that his life in prison is better than it would've been outside. He is living with the trauma of having (accidentally) murdered, the guilt that'll never leave. He hasn't been able to visit his loved ones, talk to his friends. He deals with shame, ofcourse, because people know what he did. He is not able to live his life the way that Finland could've offered him. If he weren't an inmate. If you think he's likely to do it again (the deterrent thing) then you haven't listened well. Instead of 2/3 coming back (like in America) only 1/3 comes back. It works better. Studies have shown that. Your argument again, sounds emotional, not rational.
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I'm from the Netherlands and we had a teacher that came back out of prison, for murder. (Not like a dramatic homicide, more like a passionate fight that got out of hand.) I have to be honest, first time they introduced him as the previous-murderer and then happily announced he'd be helping us with arts and crafts (nails, hammers, drills, saw and knifes) I was a bit nervous. But he was a very calm man and even though many of my fellow students tried to egg him on (it was a school for kids with agressionproblems/addictions and in my case, only ADHD) he always kept his cool and would slowly ask the student to leave the class. He taught us how to handle stuff safely and was always there to help. Later, he changed jobs and I found out he was teaching kickboxing to my mom (and her group.) Probably one of the best teachers we've had.
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I'm fairly sure that they take into account how it happened. My ex-teacher had a drunken brawl with someone and ended up killing him with a punch that was too hard. It wasn't someone who planned the homicide in advance, it was never the intent to kill him. People shouldn't find comfort in knowing others are suffering. You're acting like taking a life wouldn't leave mental scars.
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@__ Also I'd like to add that I'm from the Netherlands (not the happiest country, but proven to have the happiest children) and we have a similar system, not as good as theirs, but we're actively closing down prisons, because we just have fewer criminals to fill them with. The numbers of crime have dropped to an alltime low, like they were in the 80's.
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@apoloromero356 I will start respecting people once they write the word Minks with the M the right way around and not upside down. Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it deserves respect. Legal loopholes exist so that rich folk can take money away from people in poverty, hospitals that need the money and workers that spend their time making that money. I do not respect people with loads of money that use legal loopholes to take more money away than they'll ever need. And if you were to shove a few strings of spaghetti up your nose, and sing the Dutch national anthem, while proclaiming this song's performance is your finest work, it'd all be legal and I wouldn't respect you for it.
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@gimhanikuruppu7358 Not to mention, wearing the fur of an animal you raised, treated well, slaughtered quick and painlessly and then used up áll the stuff from, is a whole different scenario then to have 60000 minks in cages, only to be 'harvested' after a few months. Mass-killing for fur is illogical and stupid.
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@morecakesmorelays3270 The USa currently has the deathpenalty and can't decide over the methods of killing people, many people turn out to be innocent, judges kill more folks 'legally' during election-time and botched executions have traumatized volunteers (because there was no doctor allowed, to properly kill him.) You're just suggesting a lot more hassle and it says a lot about your country when you support deathpenalties. There's a thing called 'soft-power' and when a country loses that, they lose their support. Google it.
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@apoloromero356 Troll is too obvious, I'm no longer replying.
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@__ I'm fairly sure that people actually dangerous to society will be rehabilitated first...otherwise, do you really think they'd be the happiest country?
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@LouisIreland It's awful because all those animals have known is a cage. They were born, taken away from the mother, put into a cage and there they sat, wounds on their feet, waiting for death. And their usual death is anal electrocution. A normal mink, outside, runs around, eats some mice, burries a hole, impregnates a female, has babies, etc. Sure, he might get eaten by a bird at some point, but the bird is going to try and make that quick. A struggling mink has a nasty bite, so he'll be dead within a few seconds, hopefully and feed a family of hawks. Whereas in this case, there's only death and then you hang around the shoulders of a spoiled teenager, smoking and complaining about his scooter-bills. Or around the hoodie of a woman that's drinking Baccardi Breezer and crying about her exboyfriend. That's what you died for.
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@mrwood4557 Slow fashion and re-using the materials. We have more clothes than we could ever wear. Harvesting mink like it's grains, with anal electrocution is not 'natural', it's horrible.
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@henrywilliam1921 You're trolling, I'm not going to reply.
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@bunnyhop1098 Ideally you shoot a pin in their brain, but I'll be honest, I'm not 100% updated on the current best methods. I know the current method of killing animals in the Netherlands is C02 and that is something I disagree with, because it's slow and it takes them ages to choke. If you forget about the fact that they've been raised in small cages to be a fur-lining on someone's hoodie, and only focus on the method of killing, I am unsure whether electrocution on the head would be a good idea. Anal electrocution doesn't seem to have many more positive results, other than the fact that they don't have to come near the biting parts of the animal. But as you can imagine, it's probably one of the most unpleasant things to feel at the end of your little mink-life.
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It's sad how many Americans in the comments are flabbergasted about the family that "probably wants revenge." This guy was most likely part of an accidental murder, not a planned one. Maybe he drunkdrove, maybe he got into a fistfight that ended badly. I severely doubt this man was a true hitman that enjoyed murdering. And he's is now living a prosperous life, it's sad that so many of you are unable to understand why this is good.
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@pedazodetorpedo When you hit someone during a mutual fight and he falls on the sidewalk and breaks his neck.
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@pedazodetorpedo Well I feel it's safe to assume, knowing the Finns, that they dó differentiate, even if it is just in the treatment and the details. There was a reason that he was allowed outside (after years of sitting inside) and dangerous individuals aren't treated like that. I doubt the community would be as happy as they have been proven to be, if that weren't the case.
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@chaitaniyatiwari3491 He's not living the best of his life. They do not try and make them comfortable, certainly not if it was a murder out of revenge. This man has most likely been a guy that gave one punch too many during a drunken brawl and therefore, after many years, he gets chances to build up his life again. Also, nobody in their right mind would want to go back to prison if there's a good safetynet for áfter prison. I'm fairly convinced the biggest reason people get send back is drug-abuse and not murder. You have to watch the video.
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@harrellt1405 Alright, well I'm fairly sure it's called 'unintended murder' and 'intended murder' in my country :P Or like..pre-thought-of murder and..oh whatever. But yeah, I know it's different. In all countries, people that killed because they wanted to, are not being treated the same as accidental killers.
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@alaskantribute1560 Internet suggests otherwise. Also, I didn't say I was against fur, I am against raising an animal for it's fur under really bad living-conditions a.k.a. like an object.
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