The difference is, reporting a catholic priest to the police wont cause all priests to be hunted down and killed.
Reporting a supernatural being to the police will cause the discovery of supernaturals, panic, and a 21st century version of the Salem witch trials.
Or you get what happened, in the show, which is other supernaturals slaughtering a whole police station in order to keep the secret.
Mitchell absolutely should have been punished, but he should have been punished "in house" as it were. I see no reason why Nina Annie and George couldn't have imprisoned Mitchell themselves. George had a cage, why not build Mitchell one? Why not de-fang him so he cant bite any more? Oh yeah, because Nina was too scared to confront him, or even share her suspicions with George.
To be honest, if the Catholic church had handled punishment in house, say by castrating the paedophile priests, I'd have been quite happy with that. It's the fact there was no punishment combined with enabling the priests to continue that has so many people angry.
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Date: 2011-04-12 04:09 pm (UTC)Reporting a supernatural being to the police will cause the discovery of supernaturals, panic, and a 21st century version of the Salem witch trials.
Or you get what happened, in the show, which is other supernaturals slaughtering a whole police station in order to keep the secret.
Mitchell absolutely should have been punished, but he should have been punished "in house" as it were. I see no reason why Nina Annie and George couldn't have imprisoned Mitchell themselves. George had a cage, why not build Mitchell one? Why not de-fang him so he cant bite any more? Oh yeah, because Nina was too scared to confront him, or even share her suspicions with George.
To be honest, if the Catholic church had handled punishment in house, say by castrating the paedophile priests, I'd have been quite happy with that. It's the fact there was no punishment combined with enabling the priests to continue that has so many people angry.