(June 20, 2011 at 4:59 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: To be honest, I don't want you to 'reverse' your opinion by anything other than reasonable arguments, understood and acted upon solely by you. Because I consider that, by entering this thread, each and every one us can make statements, produce evidence and support our respective views and in turn learn, modify and grow what we think is right.
Because there are so few 'rights' in this world, with the rest left up to only what a large collection of over-pretentious apes can attempt to articulate.
Well, part of it was I didn't feel like I had any evidence. I had trouble defending my beliefs during this discussion and felt like I was grasping at straws. The clincher though, is not really any point you made but the question you asked about what the point of the death penalty was. I answered it but after thinking it over for awhile I've realized that my beliefs were motivated mostly by the need to exact revenge and not any real source of punishment. The death penalty is really more of an emotional comfort than anything else, and that should not be a reason to take anyone's life.
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
