RE: Do atheist belive in capital punishment
January 27, 2014 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2014 at 4:23 pm by Tonus.)
(January 26, 2014 at 10:27 pm)blue dee Wrote: would all us atheist not agree that life is a very quick death sentenceI guess you never stood in line behind someone paying for groceries with a personal check.
(January 27, 2014 at 12:10 pm)KUSA Wrote:You are asking him to make an emotional decision in that case. I think emotional decisions are usually very poorly thought out and not indicative of what we would normally decide if we got the time to think a situation through.(January 27, 2014 at 7:57 am)MitchBenn Wrote: 100% opposed to the death penalty in any and all circumstances.What if someone brutally raped and murdered your children (or other loved one) and made you watch?
If someone had done what you describe to my family, I would probably want to apply the death penalty myself to both him and anyone he cared about, just to try to make him suffer as much as I was suffering. Somehow, I don't think a rational person would agree to making that the standard punishment for the crimes of rape and murder. Emotional solutions lack balance, IMO.
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