RE: Atheist and the Death penalty
September 6, 2015 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2015 at 7:01 pm by IATIA.)
(September 6, 2015 at 4:56 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: So what you're saying is that it doesn't deter the crime, it prevents recidivism. Those are two entirely different things.
Yep. I do not think there is a true deterrent for anything. Put your hand in a fire and it burns right now. Chances are pretty good that one would not do that again. But then again, they did do it the first time. And of course the 'crimes of passion' have no deterrent.
There are some people that just need removed from society for the betterment of all. But the 'trail of evidence' of evidence needs to be more a lot more solid than it is in a lot of cases, even for extensive prison sentences. When they sit there with a shit eatin' grin and say "hell yeah!", then burn 'em. But, IMHO, 20-30+ years in prison is a death sentence in itself. When they come out (even if they were innocent from the get go), they have no job, skills are old, no family most likely, house, car, bank account all gone and the reputation that will keep them from regaining all that. The biggest problem there is that when any try to get a job, the "have you been convicted of any felonies"" on the job application, makes it almost impossible to get any 'legal' work.
BTW - (capital punishment does keep a previous offender from recidivism. sounds like a deterrent to me.)
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy