Death Penalty The waif said let there be a topic
#31
Posted 05 July 2005 - 12:35 PM
#32
Posted 05 July 2005 - 12:45 PM
Well, if you want to kill in the exact same way that they murdered their victim... it would fucking painful for guys getting their punishment for rape.
#33
Posted 05 July 2005 - 02:32 PM
#34
Posted 05 July 2005 - 03:49 PM
I'm sure you could find an inmate to volunteer for the molesting job.
#35
Posted 05 July 2005 - 04:11 PM
Or you could call Super Mario over there. Hehe!
Isaac Asimov
#36
Posted 05 July 2005 - 10:07 PM
In the end perhaps, there is a fine line between justification and hypocricy, and to put someone to death for killing just seems ... well without seeming too hippy-like, it just seems wrong.
#37
Posted 06 July 2005 - 01:38 AM
Ham Salad: You don't need to constantly cut Hoffmarn down, you know. There are other people to yell at. And for the record, when he's saying something that seems stupid and ignorant, he's often just being sarcastic. Lighten up, if you please.
JM: Something about "IMAGE CONSCIOUS KILLER VAGINAS!!!!!" tickled my funny bone.
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This post has been edited by Slade: 06 July 2005 - 01:39 AM
#38
Posted 06 July 2005 - 12:12 PM
Well, I don't agree with the Death Penalty; not because I care too too much about the possible accidental executions, but because a ) it does not deter crime, and b ) the possibility of a mistake extends the legal process and weighs more heavily the burden of proof. The practical effect being that trials take longer, appeals are easier to get, and more guilty avoid sentencing. That and it costs the legal system hundreds of millions of dollars more than a system of life sentencing.
All that said, if I found someone doing harm to someone I loved, I would make a tie from the skin on their back, and tattoo their face on it, so that when their brothers and sisters met me, they would see their loved one one last time before they died. But hey, who here wouldn't?
#40
Posted 06 July 2005 - 11:37 PM
Can you really picture that many Americans sobbing as Richard Nixon is led away to the gallows? I can, as long as the word dancing replaces sobbing.
Now as for being everything that's wrong with the world, that's true, and I apologize for being everything that's wrong with the world. I'll try to stop now that you've pointed it out.
The other thing that makes me laugh about the death penalty is the bullet proof vests. That just seems like being a prick. "NOONE but us is going to kill this guy. We TOTALLY have dibs on it so hands off, Pikey!"
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#41
Posted 07 July 2005 - 04:25 AM
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon (The Wall)!"
Now, if you support Che, it seems to me that it is therefore hypocritical to hate the death penalty. Not that I support it, though. I'm not an insane asshat lefty murderer like Che Guevara.
#43
Posted 07 July 2005 - 05:44 AM
2.) OK, maybe not, but sticking surveilence equipment in your political opponents' offices is still a pretty fucked up thing to do if you're the President of the USfreakingA.
Also, you made a very funny quote about knights that I used in my sig a while ago, kudos on that.
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#45
Posted 07 July 2005 - 06:10 AM