RE: Atheist and the Death penalty
September 5, 2015 at 7:15 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2015 at 7:15 am by ScepticOrganism.)
(September 4, 2015 at 10:43 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(September 4, 2015 at 8:39 pm)ScepticOrganism Wrote: Death penalty = Institutionalized murder
Same function, different name for a barbaric uncivilized behavior.
But consider this little dilemma ( Warning, whats written bellow is quite graphic, and has indeed occurred )
Someone rapes a 5 months old baby countless amounts of times, then proceeds to choke it. The baby does not die, the man frustrated by its resilience, takes a nail and hammers baby's head on the wall.
The man who did this is called Peter Scully. He is currently facing a lifetime in prison.
Should he be executed?
Is he going to nail any babies to the wall from a prison cell?
Probably not. But your question says a lot more about what you think, than my answer. Are you saying "So why worry about it if no one is gonna get hurt by this maniac every again? he's in for a lifetime, and thats that"
Maybe I am overthinking it.
"organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority" -- Richard Dawkins