(June 30, 2011 at 6:25 pm)DaveD Wrote:(June 30, 2011 at 5:32 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:(June 30, 2011 at 8:11 am)DaveD Wrote: People who relish the idea of taking a human life shouldn't be allowed to.
What makes you think they "relish" taking a life? Honestly, if what you say has ANY merit, then why do they often have phantom switches and several people turning them, each person not knowing (or not wanting to know) that the switch they turned was the one that made the execution?
Its one thing to be against the death penalty. Its another thing entirely to make those who support it seem as if they relish it when they do it.
Nicely quote-mined! Didn't you read the next line in my post? There will of course be a range of reactions between relishing killing people and being horrified by the idea, but if you have the death penalty you have to have someone to administer it. Whoever does so is likely to be affected, and I can't imagine how such an action would be "life affirming" unless you like killing, especially if it turns out later that the person executed was wrongly convicted.
Well, if I quote mined then that wasnt my intention. I merely saw a snippet and went with it. In no way did I wish to come off as an asshole or something like that..I merely wanted to point out a generalization I didnt care much for.
As far as "life affirming"... LMFAO...WUT?!
