(September 4, 2015 at 11:15 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: The simple answer to your question is no, there's not really a consensus, but I think it's likely that the raw majority (to whatever degree) is probably against it. Personally, I'm against virtually every instance of humans using violence against each other, and I'm especially uncomfortable with the prospect of the government using legitimized force against its citizens in any way. Not only am I not ok with the death penalty, I also think the American prison system is in dire need of reform. Really, our legal system in general is in need of reform; we have the highest proportional prison population of any developed nation. We should not be ok with that.While it's true that every conceivable act known to man has been, is, or will be illegal somewhere in the US are people in other countries really better behaved than Americans are?
The main problem in America seems to be that the nuts who run things have severe cases of the Moses complex. They think that if they could only get another 100 million laws on the books that everything will be perfect.
