(June 18, 2015 at 9:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It's quite a bit different. Soldiers don't have each other peacibly incarcerated and sitting in trial amidst the trappings of civilization and society before a jury of their peers removed from their opportunity to victimize and potentially in that state until their deaths. We don't -have- to execute inmates.....soldiers -do- have to kill or be killed, if they value their lives. I understand where you're coming from nevertheless. You're okay with asking the state to kill someone, though, or with granting the state the power to execute it's citizens?
Sounds weird coming from someone who has taken the Hippocratic oath, I know, but I believe that some individuals, under some circumstances, need to be removed from society on a permanent basis and incarceration doesn't cut it.
Again, these are extreme circumstances and my criteria are VERY strict.
But, in those circumstances I have no problem with accepting the state's choice to remove that individual for the protection of the greater community.
Guarantee me 100% that said individuals will remain incarcerated, away from others for the rest of their natural lives and I'm happy to concede defeat.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"