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I think that we should kill people that kill people..not to show them it's wrong.
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I think that we should kill people that kill people..not to show them it's wrong.
Or even as a deterrent (since people that kill people aren't really deterred by anything)
But to keep other people safe.
And for no other reason.
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if you are willing to kill some one than you should be willing to be killed. If you are willing to rape some one than you should be willing to be raped. Most people would never dream to do this because they understand what it would be like if it happened to them. We sympathize.
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if you are willing to kill some one than you should be willing to be killed. If you are willing to rape some one than you should be willing to be raped. Most people would never dream to do this because they understand what it would be like if it happened to them. We sympathize.
Honestly if you rape innocent people than I do not give two s***s if you get raped yourself. What goes around comes around.
I mean what are we going to do? Let these murderous roam around freely? They like to murder. They will probably do it again. So why care if they are dead? They would not be killed had they not killed.
The only thing that bothers me about that is some one has to kill them, making them murderous too. If only the murderers can all kill each other!
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good question. same with gay marriage--if marriage is so sacred, why not outlaw divorce? well maybe it's not the same exact thing, haha.
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good question. same with gay marriage--if marriage is so sacred, why not outlaw divorce? well maybe it's not the same exact thing, haha.
anyway, i think life in prison would be a worse penalty. i would not want to spend my life in there. and, contrary to popular belief, it is actually considerably cheaper to give a sentence of life in prison than of execution.
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One of my favourite bumper stickers. It's the ultimate irony.
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One of my favourite bumper stickers. It's the ultimate irony.
Has never made any sense to me.
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Why don't we just pardon murderers so there will be less crime??? Hey, the euro-trash do it!!
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....and so the one who provides the lethal injection takes another life.
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....and so the one who provides the lethal injection takes another life.
Well, I guess if the law is allowed to kill a growing child, and they're allowed to kill a criminal, and vast amounts of citizens in countries that have nothing to do with us.....it's their right.
Because, killing is wrong.
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it's a penalty. for breaking laws. if you don't want to get it, don't break the laws. simple enough if you ask me.
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It is relatively easy to allot monetary penalties in the case of theft or assault. But what about the crime of murder? Here, in my view, the murderer loses precisely the right of which he has deprived another human being: the right to have one's life preserved from the violence of another person. The murderer therefore deserves to be killed in return. Or, to put it more precisely, the victim — in this case his surrogate, in the form of the executor of the state should have the right to kill the murderer in return.
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It is relatively easy to allot monetary penalties in the case of theft or assault. But what about the crime of murder? Here, in my view, the murderer loses precisely the right of which he has deprived another human being: the right to have one's life preserved from the violence of another person. The murderer therefore deserves to be killed in return. Or, to put it more precisely, the victim — in this case his surrogate, in the form of the executor of the state should have the right to kill the murderer in return.
I believe exceptions should be made for victims who happen to be pacifists like yourself. This is why I propose that the will of the victim should be the determinate, but the default for those who do not have a will must be equal retaliation, the death penalty.
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I think they kill people that kill people to keep them from killing anyone else. :-p
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It's not Justice. It's revenge.
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It's not Justice. It's revenge.
An eye for an eye.
"Killing is only wrong depending on who's doing the killing, and who's dying."
Also, in situations like this, I hate to hear about tax dollars being brought up.
"Well I don't so much believe in the death penalty but if it costs more for the tax payer to keep them in jail and/or be rehabilitated, then I guess it's okay to execute them."
Well if you're an American, all of your tax dollars are financing the war in Irag whether or not you agree with it and there is the death penalty, for no reason.
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This is one area of my worldview that my faith changed. I believe that we, each of us, are loved immensely by God, and that he made each one of us. He loves us all regardless of the (potentially very poor, destructive and harmful) decisions we make. No matter what, each person has infinite, indescribable worth, not due to what they have or haven't done, but because God says they do. Therefore, I could never support the death penalty - ever. I do support punishment, but I would never support snuffing the life from anyone who God places infinite value upon.
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Why do we kidnap people who kidnap people to show people that kidnapping is wrong?
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Why do we kidnap people who kidnap people to show people that kidnapping is wrong?
Because thats flawed logic sir.
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I don't kill people.
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I don't kill people.
I have never killed people. I don't plan to kill people. but ya never know
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I don't know. I've also heard that it costs the government more money to kill an inmate rather than keep them in prison for life....something about all the paperwork, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
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Killing people has been made more comfortable. For example (and I know it is a single case), but in Texas if you commited a serious crime and three or more people see you do what you did they don't even think about it any more. They put you in the speed line to the chair.
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It's messed up. I struggle with my own position on this. Resenting paying taxes and medical care for those who've committed the most heinous crimes is part of it -- and also making damn sure they don't do it again! Still, that's countered by revulsion for killing of any kind, and the reality that our justice system sometimes gets it wrong when innocents are executed. (Tho I dunno how often that actually happens, or is it more often TV movie of the week fodder...) I don't have an answer for this. (Ha, so rare for me to be that conflicted)
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It's messed up. I struggle with my own position on this. Resenting paying taxes and medical care for those who've committed the most heinous crimes is part of it -- and also making damn sure they don't do it again! Still, that's countered by revulsion for killing of any kind, and the reality that our justice system sometimes gets it wrong when innocents are executed. (Tho I dunno how often that actually happens, or is it more often TV movie of the week fodder...) I don't have an answer for this. (Ha, so rare for me to be that conflicted)
Still, the old eye for an eye deal, it's a strong human impulse. if someone did grave harm to someone I love, or if I witnessed someone torturing a child, for example, if I had a gun in my hand...hmmm.
I also struggle with the whole idea that the sanctity of life is determined by geography...How we choose which people to help and which to let drown in wartime chaos.
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I'm againt the death penalty but I think you're looking at it the wrong way. I don't think executions are necessarily a deterrent, used to show people what will happen to them if they murder. Murder is not something that people are just going to do if there is no punishment to it. It takes a certain psychosis to be able to take a human life. I don't think regular people need to tell themselves killing is wrong. Excecutions only give some people a sense of justice, they don't show others that killin is wrong.
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we don't kill them to show people that killing is wrong. we kill them to keep them from doing more damage and just to get rid of them.
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It's really silly, that logic that killing to show that killing is wrong is, in any way, sensible.
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