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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm
(January 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm)BGChuckLee Wrote: Again I don't even understand that. What mirrors? I'm not talking about mirrors.
Sounds like a common problem for you, maybe you should see a therapist? Nah, pointless, right?
Haven't you ever wondered just what lies through the looking glass? Is it but a wall, or a universe, or penguin soup?
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It's the universe talking: it doesn't want you to understand.
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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 5, 2013 at 3:17 pm
(January 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: (January 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm)BGChuckLee Wrote: Again I don't even understand that. What mirrors? I'm not talking about mirrors.
Sounds like a common problem for you, maybe you should see a therapist? Nah, pointless, right?
Haven't you ever wondered just what lies through the looking glass? Is it but a wall, or a universe, or penguin soup?
Quote:Even your youtube video is blocked.
It's the universe talking: it doesn't want you to understand.
Well, you have purple hair, so I doubt you have anything too interesting to say. No loss on my part.
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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 5, 2013 at 3:18 pm
This is a difficult question...
A penalty is put in place with the aim of discouraging a certain behavior. The more damaging the behavior, the harsher the penalty.
What sort of behaviors would warrant a "death penalty"?
Psychotic behaviors?.... would such a penalty discourage future psychopaths?
Doesn't look like it, does it?
Other behaviors that warrant a death penalty? I don't know, in my country the maximum penalty attributable is 25 years in jail.
Of course, just because a penalty fails to prevent a crime, that doesn't mean the penalty is failing at its task of discouragement and should be chucked out.
From my perspective, if we refuse to apply corporal punishments as penalty, such as beatings, rock throwing, maiming, amputation, etc.... then we shouldn't accept the application of the maximal corporal punishment: death.
And then there's my human POV - if some guy killed my family, I would want revenge. Culminating on his death. But making him suffer as much as possible on the way there.
However, the justice system can't act like that. It can't use emotion. And it is composed of faulty human beings which may convict the wrong person. You may have guessed from all this rambling that I'm not in favor of the death penalty at the justice system level.
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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 5, 2013 at 3:24 pm
(January 5, 2013 at 3:17 pm)BGChuckLee Wrote: Well, you have purple hair, so I doubt you have anything too interesting to say. No loss on my part.
I don't have purple hair. That is a picture of some random hooker on facebook. She has lots of interesting things to say, especially about God.
As for me, my hair is badass silver. You are basically missing out on everything badass, awesome, cool, and sexy in the universe in ignoring me.
If you're kosher with that, then by all means go ahead Given that you've spoken a great deal and yet said naught a word, I'll continu to amuse myself with your wimperish gibberish
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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 5, 2013 at 10:13 pm
(January 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Nah, violence really ain't so bad. Rape's meh, there are worse things done by far. Yep.
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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 6, 2013 at 12:23 am
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RE: Death penalty for rapists?
January 6, 2013 at 11:35 am
(January 5, 2013 at 10:13 pm)Aractus Wrote: (January 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Nah, violence really ain't so bad. Rape's meh, there are worse things done by far. Yep.
Eating bananas is a crime against the universe. It causes such bastard things as this:
Down with the banana empire, and all of their evils!
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