The Death Penalty is a Good Thing

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I know I'm banging on, but it's actually THE POINT!!

To be honest I'm quite surprised this discussion carried on past Gawd's initial posts. I always thought it was only the right wing religious nutters that kept the death penalty going in America.

You live and learn. :sighsm:

You reject a rational solution for emotional reasons. That's something right-wing religious nutters do.

[stripes4]

I know I'm banging on, but it's actually THE POINT!!

To be honest I'm quite surprised this discussion carried on past Gawd's initial posts. I always thought it was only the right wing religious nutters that kept the death penalty going in America.

You live and learn. :sighsm:

You reject a rational solution for emotional reasons. That's something right-wing religious nutters do.

I anticipated THIS one!! Emotional reasons are what most, in fact, everyone's lives really come down to. We're not robots. We're folks.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I know I'm banging on, but it's actually THE POINT!!

To be honest I'm quite surprised this discussion carried on past Gawd's initial posts. I always thought it was only the right wing religious nutters that kept the death penalty going in America.

You live and learn. :sighsm:

You reject a rational solution for emotional reasons. That's something right-wing religious nutters do.

I anticipated THIS one!! Emotional reasons are what most, in fact, everyone's lives really come down to. We're not robots. We're folks.

Well, if I give you that we're humans, will you give me that we act irrationally at times?

[stripes4]

AND it's not simply emotional anyways. It is rational to recognise that a flawed legal system cannot be given the ultimate responsibility of taking a life. So boo sucks to you.

[Gawd]

Is Gawdzilla actually agreeing with me in this thread? I am utterly shocked and speechless. Normally, he just drops in and says I'm a troll.

[stripes4]

I know I'm banging on, but it's actually THE POINT!!

To be honest I'm quite surprised this discussion carried on past Gawd's initial posts. I always thought it was only the right wing religious nutters that kept the death penalty going in America.

You live and learn. :sighsm:

You reject a rational solution for emotional reasons. That's something right-wing religious nutters do.

I anticipated THIS one!! Emotional reasons are what most, in fact, everyone's lives really come down to. We're not robots. We're folks.

Well, if I give you that we're humans, will you give me that we act irrationally at times?

Yes we do. But thats what the law was invented for. To police irrationality with reason and fairness. not to kill people for vengeance.

[Gawd]

AND it's not simply emotional anyways. It is rational to recognise that a flawed legal system cannot be given the ultimate responsibility of taking a life. So boo sucks to you.

American extrajudicial murders disagree with you.

[PsychoSerenity]

You reject a rational solution for emotional reasons. That's something right-wing religious nutters do.

Actually I don't reject it for emotional reasons at all; I reject it because, from my understanding of the way modern societies work, it generally makes things worse for everybody, compared with other solutions that we now have.

[stripes4]

pffffttt

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Is Gawdzilla actually agreeing with me in this thread? I am utterly shocked and speechless. Normally, he just drops in and says I'm a troll.

I had not idea what you wrote in the OP, I normally don't read your posts.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yes we do. But thats what the law was invented for. To police irrationality with reason and fairness. not to kill people for vengeance.

And it's irrational to allow a killer more chances to kill. There's no vengeance in this, it's the best way to handle some criminals.

[Clinton Huxley]

The death penalty is the preserve of corrupt, totalitarian states and corrupt, priest-ridden states. It fails.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You reject a rational solution for emotional reasons. That's something right-wing religious nutters do.

Actually I don't reject it for emotional reasons at all; I reject it because, from my understanding of the way modern societies work, it generally makes things worse for everybody, compared with other solutions that we now have.

Warehousing people is humane and kind, isn't it? 50 years in a prison cell for a crime of passion as a youth. So much better than executing the person, he gets to die each dawn for eighteen thousand, two hundred and fifty days.

[stripes4]

Yes we do. But thats what the law was invented for. To police irrationality with reason and fairness. not to kill people for vengeance.

And it's irrational to allow a killer more chances to kill. There's no vengeance in this, it's the best way to handle some criminals.

As I've already stated, my murderers are in a high security prison, chained to power generating bikes. yah boo sucks.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The death penalty is the preserve of corrupt, totalitarian states and corrupt, priest-ridden states. It fails.

Your proof of this? That it is only the realm of the above? That a sane society can't remove a killer from their midst?