RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 5:33 pm by Cinjin.)
(January 19, 2014 at 5:14 pm)rasetsu Wrote:Compensation is subject to the person being compensated. There is no amount of money that I would trade away my freedom for. I stopped reading after the rest, since your argument is fallacious and your point heavily biased.(January 19, 2014 at 5:06 pm)Cinjin Wrote: 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.
The difference is between reversible harm and irreversible harm in punishing an innocent; you can compensate a wrongly convicted lifer and return them to society; you can't bring the dead back to life.
I honestly didn't read the rest as it started with a fallacious appeal, ignored well understood principles of law and justice, and proceeded to ramble ever more incoherently.
I'm just kidding. I read it and I can only conclude that you read mine as well and simply copped out on being able to respond to my very rational and well though points.
What about this is "incoherent" to you? "If you take a life, you forfeit your own."