Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: April 27, 2024, 11:45 pm

Poll: Should rape be punishable by death?
This poll is closed.
No
79.41%
27 79.41%
Yes
20.59%
7 20.59%
Total 34 vote(s) 100%
* You voted for this item. [Show Results]

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Death penalty for rapists?
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
(January 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm)BGChuckLee Wrote: Again I don't even understand that. What mirrors? I'm not talking about mirrors.

Sounds like a common problem for you, maybe you should see a therapist? Nah, pointless, right? Smile

Haven't you ever wondered just what lies through the looking glass? Is it but a wall, or a universe, or penguin soup?

Quote:Even your youtube video is blocked.

It's the universe talking: it doesn't want you to understand.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Reply
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
(January 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:
(January 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm)BGChuckLee Wrote: Again I don't even understand that. What mirrors? I'm not talking about mirrors.

Sounds like a common problem for you, maybe you should see a therapist? Nah, pointless, right? Smile

Haven't you ever wondered just what lies through the looking glass? Is it but a wall, or a universe, or penguin soup?

Quote:Even your youtube video is blocked.

It's the universe talking: it doesn't want you to understand.

Well, you have purple hair, so I doubt you have anything too interesting to say. No loss on my part.
Reply
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
This is a difficult question...
A penalty is put in place with the aim of discouraging a certain behavior. The more damaging the behavior, the harsher the penalty.

What sort of behaviors would warrant a "death penalty"?
Psychotic behaviors?.... would such a penalty discourage future psychopaths?
Doesn't look like it, does it?
Other behaviors that warrant a death penalty? I don't know, in my country the maximum penalty attributable is 25 years in jail.

Of course, just because a penalty fails to prevent a crime, that doesn't mean the penalty is failing at its task of discouragement and should be chucked out.

From my perspective, if we refuse to apply corporal punishments as penalty, such as beatings, rock throwing, maiming, amputation, etc.... then we shouldn't accept the application of the maximal corporal punishment: death.

And then there's my human POV - if some guy killed my family, I would want revenge. Culminating on his death. But making him suffer as much as possible on the way there.
However, the justice system can't act like that. It can't use emotion. And it is composed of faulty human beings which may convict the wrong person. You may have guessed from all this rambling that I'm not in favor of the death penalty at the justice system level.
Reply
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
(January 5, 2013 at 3:17 pm)BGChuckLee Wrote: Well, you have purple hair, so I doubt you have anything too interesting to say. No loss on my part.

I don't have purple hair. That is a picture of some random hooker on facebook. She has lots of interesting things to say, especially about God.

As for me, my hair is badass silver. You are basically missing out on everything badass, awesome, cool, and sexy in the universe in ignoring me.

If you're kosher with that, then by all means go ahead Angel Given that you've spoken a great deal and yet said naught a word, I'll continu to amuse myself with your wimperish gibberish Smile
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Reply
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
(January 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Nah, violence really ain't so bad. Rape's meh, there are worse things done by far.
Yep.
Reply
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:You are what you eat... eating bananas makes you go bananas.



Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Reply
RE: Death penalty for rapists?
(January 5, 2013 at 10:13 pm)Aractus Wrote:
(January 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Nah, violence really ain't so bad. Rape's meh, there are worse things done by far.
Yep.

Eating bananas is a crime against the universe. It causes such bastard things as this:

[Image: Ninaalexander.jpg]

Down with the banana empire, and all of their evils!
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  So today my "neighbor rapists" ...... Brian37 37 3186 March 7, 2018 at 1:46 pm
Last Post: Wyrd of Gawd
  Argument against the death penalty by a r-wing conservative Catholic_Lady 0 686 December 6, 2016 at 2:12 pm
Last Post: Catholic_Lady
  Death Penalty Vote brewer 55 9117 October 12, 2016 at 1:03 am
Last Post: Ravenshire
  Damned Rapists! BrokenQuill92 24 3411 September 30, 2015 at 11:33 am
Last Post: Pyrrho
  Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) Catholic_Lady 171 23310 July 9, 2015 at 10:20 am
Last Post: Catholic_Lady
  Debunking pro-death penalty arguments Dystopia 2 2062 January 2, 2015 at 7:49 pm
Last Post: Lucanus
  The DEATH Penalty Chad32 85 12176 January 21, 2014 at 10:32 am
Last Post: Chad32
  California keeps death penalty. Something completely different 5 1858 November 10, 2012 at 10:07 am
Last Post: Whateverist
  Death Penalty 5thHorseman 2 1328 August 9, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Last Post: Napoléon
Exclamation The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why? reverendjeremiah 448 221743 December 5, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Last Post: thesummerqueen



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)