well, after watching The Simpsons tonight, i’ve done a one-eighty on my original stance against the death penalty. It took TV to show me that not only might the death penalty be useful, however it may well prove entertaining as well. I think that given the dreck that is network television, the death penalty could really liven things up. And i’m sure that a network such as Fox could give it that wholesome yet artistic appeal that the other networks fail to do. Plus if Carmen Electra is involved (the real one - not the cartoon one), then that would be a show with everything!
How can peaple be pro-life, against Abortion, but for death penalty ?
How can a civilise society kill his how peaple ?
This is not a question of $$$
But a question of revenge
umm . . . FinsterniS, i really hope you’re kidding. in case you’re not . . .
Although i realize that satire and sarcasm do not play out in this medium very well, i had hoped that given my earlier post that the views i submitted recently would be viewed as nothing short as ridiculous and (i’d hoped) amusing.
Bad Crypt.
From now on, i will assume as little as possible about the readership.
I was joking! I am still against capital punishment. It would probably take more than a cartoon show to change my mind at this point. I was trying to instill some levity into otherwise heavy topics. (Yanny, if this is forbidden, please let me know). I certainly hope that the other readers did not take me seriously (especially the intelligent ones . . . ).
just for the record, did anyone else take me seriously?
cc
I was’nt even speaking to you CC, you are too arrogant and youre not always awnsering to me so im never taking you seriously.
I was just asking a question to some “pro-life” that are against abortion but for capital punishment.
arrogant, eh?
i’ll have to work on that one too.
well, i think its arrogant to insinuate that im not intelligent. you should be able to argue without using argumentum ad hominen.
I think peaple with quite opposite philosophy can learn with each other if they does’nt kill themself.
i’ll keep the personal attacks to a minimum. at least until i know you better (that’s a joke).
The 2 “pro” are quite strange
Well… Vengence is not quite productive. Anyway i see why justice should help peaple getting vengence.
“God” endorses the murder of any unmarried girl found not to be a virgin,(Deut. 22:13-21). Should we do so ? Come on ! Bible is’nt the ultime book of knowledge, if it is we should be looking for Dragons, Satyr and Unicorns
“How can peaple be pro-life, against Abortion, but for death penalty?”
I am one person who is against abortion but for the death penalty. And for a very different reason than just plain revenge.
On 2002-05-20 21:34, TG Moses VI wrote:
for the death penalty. And for a very different reason than just plain revenge.
What other reason is there? It’s applied unfairly. It’s expensive. It’s not a deterent. Come on.
it kills people.
it kills the wrong people.
Since 1977, the first execution after the Supreme Court authorized the death sentence; slightly more than 700 people have been executed in this country. Among the experts, there is no consensus that any of them were innocent.
On average, it takes over 10 years to execute a convicted murderer, more than enough time to weigh every shred of evidence, examine DNA, appeal on perceived errors at trial and so on. Though, abolitionists would still oppose this execution believe it’s inhumane to execute cop-killers, child-killers, the sadists who torture their victims for hours, and mass murderers
How does the state teach respect for life by taking a life? The murderer shares our common humanity. Surely even he can be rehabilitated. When the state kills, it does irreparable damage to our institutions. Wrong.
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping, and restitution is state theft. It is funny how those in favor of capital punishment forget to mention how much it protects the sanctity of life.
A murderer sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole can still laugh, learn and love, listen to music and read, form friendships, and do the thousand and one things (mundane and sublime) forever foreclosed to his victims.
A life sentence tells victims, and their loved ones: We don’t care enough about you. Because we’re too squeamish to take the life of a monster, we are implicitly stating that your life (or that of your loved ones) means less than your murderer’s. This is not revenge; it is common decency.
“Check out Texas. 20% of those killed on Death Row were found later to be innocent. Mostly during Bush’s term too.” – Yanny
Yanny, can you please provide me the names and evidence in defense of these dead “innocents” in Texas and stack it up against the overwhelming weight of the prosecution? I’m instrested to see what you results are.
“it kills people.
it kills the wrong people.” - Crypt
Again, can you please find me the names and evidence of those wrongly accused in America? I’m intrested in these results.
“Only the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.” - Aldolf Galland
“The crate? The crate matters not. It is the man who pilots the create that truely counts.”
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First of all i must say that with this kind of speech; you are the “monster”.
Second; even if it kill the good person, its always a barbarian act endorse by the governement. And again… poor peaple get capital punishment far more often.
“A life sentence tells victims, and their loved ones: We don’t care enough about you. Because we’re too squeamish to take the life of a monster, we are implicitly stating that your life (or that of your loved ones) means less than your murderer’s. This is not revenge; it is common decency.”
Not that life mean less. He make an horror by killing, but the governement has no right to endorse the same kind of horror. Killer are not monster, im sure many of them are suffering peaple. Evolve country does’nt endorse killing of human being. This is my last message here, i dont want to read again such stupidity. This is pure lack of vision & logic.
Sorry, you take a life, depending on the circumstances, your rights are gone, period.
Mr. Ghoul, I agree with you. :smile:
Right of Life? Does the person this killer murdered also have the right to life then?
Let’s run down your statement FinsterniS,
“First of all i must say that with this kind of speech; you are the “monster”.”
Hmmm… how am I the monster all of the sudden? Have I ever murdered someone? Am I murderer because I believe in justice and common decency?
“Second; even if it kill the good person, its always a barbarian act endorse by the governement.”
Yes, of course if you give the death penalty to a good, uprighteous person it is a barbarian act. I think everybody would agree you don’t murder an innocent person, which murders have done in the past. Remember what Timothy McVeigh, the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Centers, and Adolf Hitler did to innocent people? Aren’t their acts barbarian and should be punished by the fullest extend of the law? Are you saying these people shouldn’t deserve the Death Penalty?
“Not that life mean less. He make an horror by killing, but the governement has no right to endorse the same kind of horror. Killer are not monster, im sure many of them are suffering peaple. Evolve country does’nt endorse killing of human being. This is my last message here, i dont want to read again such stupidity. This is pure lack of vision & logic.”
Killer are not monster? Okay, provided this killer is not a monster than how does calling me a “monster” make me worse if I have never taken a person’s life? It must be my stupidity, which you have attacked that has made me more of a “monster” than of committing evil sins. Yeah, I’m sure many convicted killers are suffering too now that they’ve been caught.
“And again… poor peaple get capital punishment far more often.”
Would it be because the poor are the ones who are more likely to and actually commit the majority of these crimes?
PS: FinsterniS, it is pretty sad that you have to lower yourself in attacks against my intelligence. Have I ever once called your statements “stupid” or affronted your integrity like statements as “pure lack of vision & logic?” I am only wondering if you are using such insults in order to cover the shaky stance of your argument. Ad Hominem if that is the case
“Only the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.” - Aldolf Galland
“The crate? The crate matters not. It is the man who pilots the create that truely counts.”
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sorry i don’t have the stats (or energy) to back up my claims, however as Mr. Ghoul can attest there have been a couple of people (David Milgard, Thomas Sophanow) in Winnipeg alone that have served time for murder despite innocence (these would be capital offences in Texas).
Although I disagree with FinsterniS’ albeit emotional rhetoric, i do agree that we are inflicting laws created by men designed to take a life. Do we really have that right? Because we voted for it, or a bunch of men in nice suits in some city decided that justice would be served this way? There surely must be a more civilized approach than a simple “eye for an eye”.
(mind you, i also think that child molesters should be thrown into the general prison population, so i am certainly no moral authority on this, but rather we really need to question the authorities who make this a law).
Also, i know this is a simplistic argument, but i could not perform the injection, pull the lever, what-have-you.
I also disagree with FinsterniS’ assertion that you, Moses, are a monster. You provide an interesting case, but one that relies too much on the emotions of vengence for justice, sympathy for the victims, and justification for death row. We need a little more than 10 years in a hole and a burning desire to see vengence done before we put ourselves in the position of an almighty God in our decision to take a life. (i’m sure that was what FinsterniS was trying to say, no? - joke)
David Milgard, Thomas Sophanow. Okay I’ll try researching these two “innocents” and report what I have found ( hopefully within the next week or so – currently I’m busy too :wink: ). I will try to provide an objective standpoint and see what the results were.
No doubt capital punishment is a very emotional subject. It involves the greatest tragedy of all – death. War, the bringer of death, is the greatest bearer of raw emotion – both good and bad.
Now, I’m in support capital punishment, but only in the most dire of situations. Should we execute someone who accidentally killed someone due to negligence, like falling asleep while driving only to end up running over pedestrian? Should we execute someone who killed another person in self-defense, such as home invasion robbery? Absolutely not. That is why our US Court system has a system of manslaughter and self-defense, which do not lead to the death penalty. (Though the length of time is still debated)
I’m sure that many of these people feel genuine sorrow for their actions. But how about those charges that do result in capital punishment – 1st and 2nd degree murder? These are cases where the person killed the other person with malice aforethought, and the killing was premeditated. Now even then you do not see the majority of the sentences leading to the death penalty. However, what about the Hitlers, Terrorists on WTC, Timothy McVeighs where not only was the murder premeditated and malice, but resulting in the mass killings of the lives of many others? Worst, these barbarians never expressed sympathy for the lives they took – Hitler to the Russians, Timothy to those in the Oklahoma City bombing, or Osoma to New York. Should these not require the death penalty but life imprisonment where they can “still laugh, learn and love, listen to music and read, form friendships, and do the thousand and one things (mundane and sublime) forever foreclosed to his victims?” That is the question for you to decide.
“Only the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.” - Aldolf Galland
“The crate? The crate matters not. It is the man who pilots the create that truely counts.”
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That is the question for you to decide. - Moses
me or God. I won’t decide it. (even if i did it wouldn’t make any difference).
my dad sometimes comments that The Lord will decide at the end of it all how these evil people you mentioned will be dealt with. “Vengence is mine saith the Lord. I will repay”. (of course you athiests do not need to respond as you obviously don’t buy in to this “fairy tale ending” :smile:
FinsterniS, I hope what Crypt said was correct and that your statements were solely based on emotional rhetoric that you failed to contain. I’ve noticed that I am not the only person you branded with Ad Hominem - I for my supposed “stupidity” (along with lack of logic or vision) and Crypt for his “arrogance.” If you want to attack me, then do so through your arguments. Oh course I am willing to forgive. You are still a relative new poster, and I might have made such attacks in the past. If I have, then I am honestly sorry and offer my condolences. If I am accurately ignorant, than it damages not only me but also you. Now you have to lower yourself into the embarrassment of debating an brainless fool like me.
Now, let’s take Crypt and Mr. Ghoul for instance (don’t mind if I use you guys). Generally we would agree and disagree on some issues, but that in no ways means that I lose respect for them simply because they sided with the other half of an argument. I understand that they have valid points too or that one of us is mis/un informed (life is not always black and white, but more often gray). I realize that everybody is different in their unique way and rightly so. I’m sure there were debates where I have switched sides due to the other half having a better argument (I use to be con capital punishment myself).
Now if such personal attacks continue, I will be forced to leave. I simply cannot stand such derogatory remarks made on a particular poster.
“Only the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.” - Aldolf Galland
“The crate? The crate matters not. It is the man who pilots the create that truely counts.”
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