(June 19, 2015 at 1:45 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(June 18, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Ashground Wrote: There is no reason to kill the dangerous person so long as there is nothing more deserving the money required could go to. If everyone got enough to eat, a good education, health care and shelter then I'd be right there with you. But here in the U.S., that isn't the way it goes. A huge fraction of children are in poverty and a good chunk of the adult population is incarcerated already. (We are so fucked.)
1) One need only to open the Bible to understand why we 'Murricans love us some capital punishment.
2) Never underestimate a 'Murrican's ability to withstand outrageous levels of cognitive dissonance.
I find my eye tic a great help in dissipating cognitive dissonance.