RE: The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why?
June 7, 2011 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm by Anymouse.)
(June 7, 2011 at 6:18 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Against the death penalty -- until we can restore life.
Because a mistake in putting someone to death who is innocent isn't a mistake -- it is a crime.
It's just that the government can't arrest itself for unlawfully killing someone and bloodthirsty morons with financial motivations will always support its right to kill it's own citizens.
I always wondered that if murder et al are so illegal and terrible, then why do we practice it? Looks awfully pot calling the kettle black if you support the death penalty but are against dealing death to others (homicide)...
By definition, homicide is unlawful killing. The death penalty is lawful killing by the State, mistaken or not. It's that "mistaken or not" part that bothers me. Wonder how many jurists would impose the death penalty if the penalty for being wrong was they were also executed?
The government could arrest itself (or its members, anyway). They won't.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
