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How do you feel about the death penalty?

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How do you feel about the death penalty?
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
December 6, 2015 at 1:59 pm (This post was last modified: December 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm by paulpablo.)
(December 6, 2015 at 1:34 pm)DespondentFishdeathMasochismo Wrote:
(December 6, 2015 at 1:26 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Isn't this the standard way punishment works for lots of crimes?  

If you bind someone's hands, coerce them into a vehicle then drive somewhere with them and imprison them and the police find out, they will drive to you, bind your hands behind your back, force you into their vehicle and imprison you.

The police do things to people all the time as a form of punishment that are considered crimes themselves.  

Stealing, kidnapping, violence, shootings, forced imprisonment.

I am against the death penalty though.  I think it could work if it was used sensibly but I have absolutely no faith that it would be used sensibly all the time.  There are some cases where I think it would be the most humane thing to do.
That's a terrible model of policing. If policing people is just about getting revenge, then it's just a petty and appalling form of abuse, no different than enslaving others because you think they're lower life forms. If policing was actually about justice and doing what's best for society, we would be trying to rehabilitate criminals, instead of demonizing them and further alienating them from society, into just becoming worse criminals. You're saying that it's okay that police officers  abuse people, because criminals do it too? It's still a double standard you've made.

No I'm saying that's what they already do.  It's not a proposal.  The police take people's money, shoot people, force people into prisons, use violent force and so on. 
I'm not saying it's justified or not justified, it's just a statement that this is what the police do. I didn't give my opinion of these actions in the post at all.


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How do you feel about the death penalty?

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How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - December 5, 2015 at 6:59 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Longhorn - December 5, 2015 at 7:01 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by paulpablo - December 6, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - December 5, 2015 at 7:02 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Longhorn - December 5, 2015 at 7:03 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - December 5, 2015 at 7:06 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by abaris - December 5, 2015 at 8:43 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by AFTT47 - December 5, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Grandizer - December 5, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Chad32 - December 5, 2015 at 11:03 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Mermaid - December 5, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - December 5, 2015 at 12:07 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Minimalist - December 5, 2015 at 12:53 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Mermaid - December 5, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by rexbeccarox - December 5, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by vorlon13 - December 5, 2015 at 2:37 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by pgrimes15 - December 5, 2015 at 6:51 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Alex K - December 5, 2015 at 7:43 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Darkstar - December 6, 2015 at 2:21 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Jackalope - December 6, 2015 at 2:32 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Aroura - December 6, 2015 at 3:03 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by vorlon13 - December 6, 2015 at 3:17 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - December 6, 2015 at 4:09 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Cinjin - December 6, 2015 at 4:12 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Ravenshire - February 6, 2016 at 5:33 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Athene - December 6, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by abaris - December 6, 2015 at 10:27 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by paulpablo - December 6, 2015 at 1:59 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by IATIA - December 6, 2015 at 2:18 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Eclipse - February 6, 2016 at 11:22 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by LastPoet - February 6, 2016 at 11:28 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Chad32 - February 6, 2016 at 11:36 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - February 6, 2016 at 12:41 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by LastPoet - February 6, 2016 at 12:52 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Joods - February 6, 2016 at 12:53 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Ravenshire - February 6, 2016 at 5:39 pm
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by Eclipse - February 12, 2016 at 7:00 am
RE: How do you feel about the death penalty? - by *Deidre* - February 6, 2016 at 5:20 pm

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