RE: The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why?
December 1, 2011 at 8:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2011 at 9:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
And Epi uses "it" ( a slur for a person he doesn't like) to justify a system of violence meant to exterminate all of the "it"s who he believes to be less than human as well...so? Don't facepalm me, lol.
"But they really are shitbag serial killers" says the "it"ist
"But they really are shitbag (insert ethnic slur)" says the racist.
Now, I'm not calling Epi a racist, nothing of the sort, I understand why he feels the way he does, I share the sentiment. Again..it's simply my opinion that it has no place in law with regards to the death penalty. "It" cannot be used as a justification for executions. It's his opinion, not a fact. Fact is, a serial killer is a human being. Cut and dry. They don't lose this classification when they commit a crime, and if killing people is wrong, it isn't made right by deciding to call them "it". If we find ourselves staring at a moral dilemma, it doesn't go away simply by redefinition (unless you're Statler fucking Waldork, or GC..to bring it full circle).
(and again, because I can never say this enough, those people we deem to be "it"s...sometimes just happen to be innocent, just happen to be people after all. Not alot, but even once is too many times, for me. I know that both you and Epi feel the same way, the two of you have more confidence in our ability to be certain, even if only in theory. That's the difference in opinion.)
"But they really are shitbag serial killers" says the "it"ist
"But they really are shitbag (insert ethnic slur)" says the racist.
Now, I'm not calling Epi a racist, nothing of the sort, I understand why he feels the way he does, I share the sentiment. Again..it's simply my opinion that it has no place in law with regards to the death penalty. "It" cannot be used as a justification for executions. It's his opinion, not a fact. Fact is, a serial killer is a human being. Cut and dry. They don't lose this classification when they commit a crime, and if killing people is wrong, it isn't made right by deciding to call them "it". If we find ourselves staring at a moral dilemma, it doesn't go away simply by redefinition (unless you're Statler fucking Waldork, or GC..to bring it full circle).
(and again, because I can never say this enough, those people we deem to be "it"s...sometimes just happen to be innocent, just happen to be people after all. Not alot, but even once is too many times, for me. I know that both you and Epi feel the same way, the two of you have more confidence in our ability to be certain, even if only in theory. That's the difference in opinion.)
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