RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 5:08 pm by Cinjin.)
What if I were the innocent one who got a guilty conviction?
If I were the one to get dealt that bad hand, that would truly suck, and of course, I would be angry at the system.
However, there's a difference, and THIS is my point right here:
If I was about to be executed rather than put into prison for the remainder of my life, I would STILL support the death penalty. Imprisonment is FAR worse an injustice than death by lethal injection IMO. My anger at that moment would not be over the fact that I was about to be executed, but rather that the system had failed me in proving my innocence. Opponents to the death penalty think that life in a cage is somehow "less unjust" for an innocent man. I do not for a moment feel that that is a legitimate defense of life imprisonment.
Additionally, as the human race finds more and more ways (DNA, fiber analysis, lie detection, etc) to prove one's innocence, this already comparatively small amount of injustices will continue to diminish.
But lets look at the real issue: Why the bleeding heart? Why the injection of morality to the subject?
A homicidal scumbag kills 3 innocent people. Your child was one them. He appears to show no remorse and never admits to killing anyone even though the evidence against him is overwhelming and astonishing. Why keep him around? What moral obligation do I have to feed and house a worthless sack of shit that has never and will never give anything to society? What god has deemed his life valuable? Who's religion are we following?
It's ok to kill in a war. It's ok to be soldier. It's ok to kill in self defense. It's ok to kill billions of animals. Most will even turn a blind eye if a father kills someone who raped and murder his little girl, but hey, it's not ok to legally execute a filthy cold-blooded killer.
I don't buy it and although I hate the fact that I'm on the same side as many religious halfwits on this issue, I cannot understand why an atheist would ascribe some kind of moral dilemma to having justice be done.
It's simple really: You took an innocent life. You forfeit your own.
If I were the one to get dealt that bad hand, that would truly suck, and of course, I would be angry at the system.
However, there's a difference, and THIS is my point right here:
If I was about to be executed rather than put into prison for the remainder of my life, I would STILL support the death penalty. Imprisonment is FAR worse an injustice than death by lethal injection IMO. My anger at that moment would not be over the fact that I was about to be executed, but rather that the system had failed me in proving my innocence. Opponents to the death penalty think that life in a cage is somehow "less unjust" for an innocent man. I do not for a moment feel that that is a legitimate defense of life imprisonment.
Additionally, as the human race finds more and more ways (DNA, fiber analysis, lie detection, etc) to prove one's innocence, this already comparatively small amount of injustices will continue to diminish.
But lets look at the real issue: Why the bleeding heart? Why the injection of morality to the subject?
A homicidal scumbag kills 3 innocent people. Your child was one them. He appears to show no remorse and never admits to killing anyone even though the evidence against him is overwhelming and astonishing. Why keep him around? What moral obligation do I have to feed and house a worthless sack of shit that has never and will never give anything to society? What god has deemed his life valuable? Who's religion are we following?
It's ok to kill in a war. It's ok to be soldier. It's ok to kill in self defense. It's ok to kill billions of animals. Most will even turn a blind eye if a father kills someone who raped and murder his little girl, but hey, it's not ok to legally execute a filthy cold-blooded killer.
I don't buy it and although I hate the fact that I'm on the same side as many religious halfwits on this issue, I cannot understand why an atheist would ascribe some kind of moral dilemma to having justice be done.
It's simple really: You took an innocent life. You forfeit your own.
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