RE: Dylann Roof sentenced to death
January 13, 2017 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 4:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 13, 2017 at 4:10 pm)Shell B Wrote: Sure, but you keep bringing up its current state, which we both already have a problem with, so we can just leave it out.Naturally, since it's current state is...well...it's current state. I've also expressed my objections to your proposed improvements of that state. Beyond thinking that those improvements, a cheap(er) and flawless system, are beyond silly as expectations of anything that we could ever achieve in the real world...supposing we could, I'd still object to the death penalty on the grounds that -I- find the most compelling, which you may not. Limits to the power and authority of the State. The State, by it's very nature, wields a broad and terrifying ability, even when it steps lightly, even when every precaution is taken. I suppose we all have varying experience with or as or in relation to that ability, and those probably have a deeply diversifying effect on our positions regarding the State. I;d lock it in a box as much as possible, anywhere possible, and especially in places where it does something that there is no need for. Things that serve nothing and no one.
Quote:Yeah, see this is more about me just not giving a shit than trying to solve a problem. The way I see it, the people who are hungry for their brand of justice can go ahead and kill these guys, as long as they're extra careful about not killing anyone else. Again, not saying that's what's happening or that it's necessarily possible in this country. Just that those are my criteria for being just plain blasé about it.I can understand those criteria. You've compartmentalized it (not criticizing, just noticing).
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