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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:49 pm
(August 16, 2018 at 11:32 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Quote:It’s called, “getting what you give.”
It's called "killing someone for no moral reason other then it feels right" . Sorry if i'm going to kill someone it's going to have to stand on firmer ground then that.
It’s called killing someone for the moral reason that they hurt people for sexual pleasure, and they should pay for the crimes they chose to commit.
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm
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That they should pay does not mean that we should kill them. No ones advocating that we just let them skate, right?
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm
(August 16, 2018 at 11:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Which may be emotionally satisfying, but not necessarily just. Which of the two is a capital case supposed to mete out? Visceral satisfaction, or justice?
How do you define justice?
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Quote:It’s called killing someone for the moral reason that they hurt people for sexual pleasure, and they should pay for the crimes they chose to commit.
Again this begs the question is this a moral reason to kill a prisoner ?
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:51 pm
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(August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm)IKhemikal Wrote: That they should pay does not mean that we should kill them. No ones advocating that we just let them skate, right?
The punishment doesn’t even fit the crime, Khem.
(August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Quote:It’s called killing someone for the moral reason that they hurt people for sexual pleasure, and they should pay for the crimes they chose to commit.
Again this begs the question is this a moral reason to kill a prisoner ?
In my opinion yes, it is a moral reason to end a life. No question.
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:52 pm
Quote:You're not doing the killing.
Yes i am i'm part of the society that sentences to death
Quote:Those hired by those we elect to represent us are.
And those are my representatives
Quote:And I thought we'd moved on from the immorality of cleansing the genepool of scum to disinfecting it by keeping the threats to the genepool locked up?
Wow just wow
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:53 pm
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(August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (August 16, 2018 at 11:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Which may be emotionally satisfying, but not necessarily just. Which of the two is a capital case supposed to mete out? Visceral satisfaction, or justice?
How do you define justice?
Can we not do this, honestly? I define justice as something identifiably separate from emotional satisfaction. That really ought to be enough to contextualize my question..shouldn't it? We're not really arguing that point...surely...?
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:53 pm
(August 16, 2018 at 11:51 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm)IKhemikal Wrote: That they should pay does not mean that we should kill them. No ones advocating that we just let them skate, right?
The punishment doesn’t even fit the crime, Khem.
(August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Again this begs the question is this a moral reason to kill a prisoner ?
In my opinion yes, it is a moral reason to end a life. No question. And that's all that it is i'm afraid
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:54 pm
(August 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Khemikal Wrote: That they should pay does not mean that we should kill them. No ones advocating that we just let them skate, right?
I think you'll find many comments about life in prison being "torture". If that's not advication of eventual release, I don't know what is.
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RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 11:55 pm
Even if that were so....if a person serves 50 years...they didn't skate.
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