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Death Penalty - contradiction?
04-04-2013, 11:14 AM
If you support the death penalty - does than mean you should support the following as well?
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm...0331159230
Serious question.
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Death Penalty - contradiction?
04-04-2013, 02:46 PM
I'd be more supportive if they just ripped out his eye like he did to the victim. I am very much for jungle justice in which you get the same as what you dealt out.
The only time I am 100% for the Death Penalty is when Adults harm children because that child has to still live on with the grief for the rest of its life and many grow up with a lot issues from that. If an Adult is going to seriously harm a child whom is completely defenceless then they have lost their privilege to be a honest broker in society.
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Death Penalty - contradiction?
04-04-2013, 03:56 PM
It is strange because alot more people would say they are in favour of killing someone, than would say they are in favour of crippling someone.
I find that ambiguity interesting. And I don't speak from a strong pro or anti-death penalty stance.
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Death Penalty - contradiction?
04-04-2013, 04:02 PM
I am in favour of death penalty and eye for an eye.
Lets keep in mind a guy who killed 6 kids got something like 15 years in jail today in the UK. He killed 6 kids.
also lol at all th human right's groups getting pissed about this, don't they realsie that some countries have different cultures and you can't just tell them to change so they don't offend your morality.
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Death Penalty - contradiction?
04-04-2013, 04:25 PM
I think a civilized society should have as many ways of meting out justice as there are types of crimes. some crimes are similar, sometimes the circumstances are similar and sometimes the same crime is committed in totallyy different circumstances. Discerning between them and chosing the appropriate punishment must be left to the discretion of "good" men.
Which, by the way, is why it's critical we continue to have a strong civil religion and civil society in the US and why the ACLU is so friggin' dangerous.
The boy was 14 when he committed the crime. At that stage, a lot of people have underdeveloped brains that make them less conscientous and more rash. If the boy had shown good behavior till then and seemed of good character, I would say the appropriate atonement was for him to finish his schooling in prison, then to provide for the paralyzed kid as long as was necessary - for the rest of his life if need be. If he failed in this task, he should serve life in prison. This is of course assuming the above. I don't know the details.
If some punk-ass low-life of a third-world immigrant comes to my country and kills a family, he should be tried and sentenced to death by hanging, the sentence to be executed no later than 6 weeks after the trial. If the same punk just goes around stirring up trouble, he should be branded and deported to his ancestral homeland and his family should foot the bill. In general Western countries need to execute their murderers and deport all criminal immigrants, because right now society is regressing from a low-crime enlightened society it was in the 60's back to a more barbaric level. The low-crime levels in Western societies was achieved through a centuries long-process of instilling a powerful sense of justice in the people, both through the courts and also through its institutions and culture. If we want to achieve those low-crime levels again, we have to come down on crime with remorseless consistency and remove criminal elements from society - by deportation, execution or incarceration until it is no more.
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