RE: Dylann Roof sentenced to death
January 13, 2017 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 7:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 13, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Shell B Wrote: Well, I think we could, but there are a lot of variables that would make it a monumental task–one that I doubt our government will ever care to undertake.I don't dismiss them just because I disagree, I dismiss them because they can't answer that question any more competently than you or I.
Why do it in the first place? I don't know. I know a lot of people feel it is right. I know we can't dismiss them just because we disagree with them. I also know that I don't care about this select few people living or dying, so my default is to say if you take out the objection that I have (the possibility of innocence), then have at it. Where you have an additional or several additional objections, you obviously don't default to that position.
Quote:See, they technically can't kill you, assuming they follow the letter of the law and you don't commit a heinous act, in my hypothetical paradise. To be fair, they can kill you even if it's against the law, as evidenced by the untold numbers of innocent people killed by police and military violence.It probably wouldn't surprise you to find that I advocate for taking lethal options away from law enforcement as well, I'm guessing? In my "perfect state"...when the state kills someone (a citizen), it's accidental, no matter the context. Military, meh...it's a terrible fucking profession where people do terrible things to each other. No way around it.
Quote:Ah, fair point. I say them because I wouldn't have anything to do with it. However, if I had to take some partial ownership of that death, I still wouldn't lift a finger to stop it, assuming, again, that we were in Shelltopia.Why compartmentalize at all if, even assuming ownership, you wouldn't lift a finger? IDK< I hate to be the guy that says..it seems like you might, or some part of you is already lifting a finger just in compartmentalizing it...but, I'm totally that guy...so there, I said it.
Quote:I like debating with you too. I swear to fuck we've had this same debate before. We'll have to pick another one next time. Go find something we disagree about.
Twice, actually.
(it would be fun to find something we did disagree about. The Sox suck, discuss?)
Quote:It doesn't matter if they give me no burgers. I'm a terrible liar. They'd say, "You kill them?" I'd say, "Them who?"Hehehe, probably best to say nothing, then, lol.
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