Sometimes I wonder why.

Father kills men sexually assaulting his daughter

I don't want this to be about my opinion on the matter. I am posting my view on the matter because it relates to the topic. Whether you agree with me on the subject is completely fine. I don't really care when people disagree with me as long as they don't interpret what I am saying to mean something else. Unfortunately when it came to a discussion about this article it has happened.

What I think is that the Father has every right and should defend his family. What I don't agree with is the result of the situation. I don't think the death should have been the result here. I understand that someone can be so emotionally driven to do something irrational, but that doesn't mean I find it right.

The killing of the rapist could lead the father to get some jail time, if he served time then this only gets worse. The father is in jail out of his daughters life for some years and the daughter doesn't have a father in her life. I am sure the father isn't going to be thinking about the people who think he did right in jail, he'd be thinking about his daughter. Nobody would be winning.

Now whether you agree with me or not is fine, but it's not what I want to discuss. When I stated this in a discussion I had, people interpreted that this meant that I was some how defending the rapist, had some sympathy for him. That it meant that I thought that the Father was a cold hearted murderer. That I didn't think the dad had a right to defend his daughter.

At this point I sometimes wonder why I even bother to join the discussion, or even write anything at all. I like to think I write my opinions pretty clearly. So when someone gets this out of what I wrote, I just feel like I wasted my time. I could write this a bit differently or expand on some of the points I made but I don't think there would be much of a difference in what people already took out of it.

If people are going to read what they want to read, why should I continue to write amongst them? Maybe I just have this need to stretch my fingers. Just to keep them moving until I find the next discussion I want to invest my time to.

I talked about being emotionally involved in your writing before and that is exactly why I get bothered when someone gets something completely different out of what I write. I put effort into wording what I write because I want the person to get exactly what I feel about the issue. It's important for me to do this because  writing is a part of what represents me and I want to represent myself well. So when people interpret things like this I get offended, especially when one thinks I am defending a rapist.

I guess it's just one of those things that you have to deal with when you write. One of those things that you just get used to and move on from. Let's hope I move sooner than later.