Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)

[Pyrrho]

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Also, I don't comprehend why the US is so pro-capital punishment (by western standards). I would have thought that people who think they need a personal armory to defend themselves from their own government would be against that government having the power to separate them from their arms, confine them and then strap them to a chair and kill them. I will never understand Americans.

That seems a strange thing to say, coming from someone who started a thread about the joys of hatred:

Hatred: Too good to give up?

Also, you there state of hatred that "Such emotions are barely affected by reason."  So when Americans hate, why would you expect them to be different from others and somehow be rational in their hatred?  That almost makes me think you are ready for the following, but I suspect it is a momentary aberration and you are probably not ready for American thinking.


You will never understand Americans because you have not had the benefit of a superpower education.  You see, foreigners like you are often limited in your thinking, and believe that consistency and reason and logic are somehow necessary.  But here, we are taught differently, and have a greater appreciation for other options.  Here in America, we at one time had government subsidies paying farmers to grow tobacco, while at the same time spending massive amounts of money advertising to tell people not to smoke.  That is the way we do things.  We don't expect you to understand our ways, as we know you did not have the benefit of a superpower education, and you lack our creative thinking, and require simple systems for you to be able to comprehend them, involving consistency and other such things that are irrelevant to us, with our superior thinking and understanding.  That also explains why so many of us believe in god and take the writings of primitive, barbaric, superstitious people seriously, which one can tell from the reverence so many of us have for the Bible, and, of course, many of us read horoscopes and other such things.  Think about that when you remember all of our nuclear weapons, and the fact that we are the only country to ever actually use such weapons in war.  Many of us are quite ready to use them again, and the weapons are much more numerous and more powerful than when we used them previously.  Indeed, it will be the greatest waste of money in the history of the world if we do not use them.  It is my understanding that several of the current crop of presidential candidates are well-steeped in such ideas as I have presented in this post, and so we may soon see the fruition of our extensive preparations.  Sweet dreams!