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Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)

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Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)
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RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)
June 18, 2015 at 8:14 pm
(June 18, 2015 at 8:05 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: There are cases where I think you could argue that the death penalty would be moral, take Anders Breivik for example - there's no redeeming that guy, we absolutely know that he's guilty, he's un-repentant. The only option we have with someone like that is to keep them in a cell for the rest of their life with no hope of release or execute them. As for the argument that the death penalty make us all murderers, lowers us to being a barbaric society and so on, again using Breivik as an example there are some people who I think it reflects badly upon us if we let them live - there aren't many of these people, don't get me wrong

I voted against though, you can't have it across the board for certain crimes mainly because we don't have perfect information, even if we did I would only reserve it for the "monsters"

Breivik won't live long after he leaves jail Tongue

But seriously - I don't know if he was a psychopath, I think he was just deeply committed to his ideology and believed to be doing the right thing - This is the behaviour of any fundamentalist, and sometimes it can be changed if we treat the person on time... There are some ex-radical muslims now criticizing terrorism because they left the extreme faction they used to belong to. It's hard, but not impossible.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Catholic_Lady - June 18, 2015 at 7:25 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Jackalope - June 18, 2015 at 7:33 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Dystopia - June 18, 2015 at 7:33 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Iroscato - June 18, 2015 at 7:38 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by AFTT47 - June 19, 2015 at 12:02 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Aroura - June 18, 2015 at 7:39 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Saxmoof - June 18, 2015 at 8:05 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Dystopia - June 18, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Regina - June 18, 2015 at 8:08 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Dystopia - June 18, 2015 at 8:22 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by rexbeccarox - June 18, 2015 at 11:19 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by AFTT47 - June 19, 2015 at 2:53 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Saxmoof - June 18, 2015 at 8:29 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Ashground - June 18, 2015 at 9:33 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Pyrrho - June 18, 2015 at 10:33 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Ashground - June 18, 2015 at 11:33 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Whateverist - June 19, 2015 at 12:44 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Jenny A - June 18, 2015 at 9:36 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by c172 - June 18, 2015 at 10:53 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by paulpablo - June 18, 2015 at 11:24 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 12:40 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by abaris - June 19, 2015 at 1:10 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Whateverist - June 19, 2015 at 11:53 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by ignoramus - June 19, 2015 at 1:46 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Alex K - June 19, 2015 at 3:37 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Bob Kelso - June 19, 2015 at 4:01 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 6:09 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 6:14 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 6:27 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 7:25 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 7:45 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cato - June 19, 2015 at 9:04 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by abaris - June 19, 2015 at 7:33 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 7:39 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 7:47 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Alex K - June 19, 2015 at 6:39 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 6:57 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Alex K - June 19, 2015 at 7:00 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 7:14 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 7:22 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 7:59 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 8:03 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 8:29 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Iroscato - June 19, 2015 at 8:53 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 9:16 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by abaris - June 19, 2015 at 10:16 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 10:22 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 10:29 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cato - June 19, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 8:53 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Iroscato - June 19, 2015 at 8:57 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cyberman - June 19, 2015 at 10:43 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by pocaracas - June 19, 2015 at 10:56 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by 25point81 - June 19, 2015 at 11:01 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - June 19, 2015 at 11:05 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Crossless1 - June 19, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 3, 2015 at 1:16 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Longhorn - July 3, 2015 at 10:46 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by bennyboy - July 3, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Joko - July 5, 2015 at 11:19 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 7, 2015 at 7:59 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Iroscato - July 7, 2015 at 9:05 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cato - July 7, 2015 at 9:12 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Metis - July 7, 2015 at 8:10 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Aoi Magi - July 7, 2015 at 8:22 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Nope - July 7, 2015 at 8:26 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by AFTT47 - July 7, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Aoi Magi - July 7, 2015 at 9:02 am
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by AFTT47 - July 7, 2015 at 1:59 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Dystopia - July 7, 2015 at 8:42 am
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by lifeskyblue - July 7, 2015 at 9:49 am
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 7, 2015 at 12:54 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cato - July 7, 2015 at 12:59 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Dystopia - July 7, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 7, 2015 at 1:54 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by AFTT47 - July 7, 2015 at 2:03 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 7, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 7, 2015 at 8:08 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 7, 2015 at 9:28 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Silver - July 7, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Pyrrho - July 7, 2015 at 10:36 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 8, 2015 at 7:41 am
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 8, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 8, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by KUSA - July 8, 2015 at 5:55 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cyberman - July 8, 2015 at 9:06 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Chad32 - July 8, 2015 at 7:14 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cyberman - July 8, 2015 at 7:41 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cyberman - July 8, 2015 at 8:44 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cyberman - July 8, 2015 at 9:22 pm
RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll) - by Cyberman - July 9, 2015 at 3:34 am

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