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aprilfools1993
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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: For or against the Death Penalty? |
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What is your opinion of the death penalty?
Are you in favor, opposed, undecided? (vote)
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TyPod
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| In favor. Though, being in jail for life would have them learn their lesson. |
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Pleiades
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Anything that gets me through the line at the grocery store line faster is okay by me. In fact, I think we should take the warning labels off everything. If you're too dumb to not give your baby a plastic bag to play with, perhaps you shouldn't have children.
/sarcasm.
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dungeon92
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: For or against the Death Penalty? |
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| aprilfools1993 wrote: | What is your opinion of the death penalty?
Are you in favor, opposed, undecided? (vote)
Under what circumstances would you change your position?
What if the defendant was 14?
Or a mother with children?
Mentally retarded?
Was seriously abused, both mentally and physically as a child?
Legally insane? |
NO IF's
You can't expect a decent answer and then go and ask the IF's so many people use the IF's to try and make people look bad, IF's are not part of the question. You asked my opinion on the death penalty and I support it, now the fact that they care about whether or not they suffer when dieing is stupid they are going to die just make it faster and make it cheaper use a concrete wall and a rifle with them turned facing the wall, see very quick and easy. People who kill must pay and whether or not they should suffer do to human rights is out of the question since they gave up their rights when they took the life of someone who wanted to live (yes I believe in mercy killing too). If we give rights to those who kill others what have we done to seek justice for the dead?
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Weee
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm honestly undecided. I don't have a problem with putting someone to death for murdering another human being. It's just that our legal system seems so messed up. Plus, we still live in a fairly racist country. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I am against the death penalty. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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I am for the death penalty
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splen
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:28 am Post subject: |
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The thing which upsets me about the whole debate is the way that it inevitably reduces human life to a commodity, and I don't think any of us have a right to assign a value to another's existence.
My views are admittedly idealistic but they basically boil down to this:
Taking life is wrong, whether it's done by an individual, group or government. It's all just murder.
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Ben Tex
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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We don't call them executions around these parts. We have Texecutions! The term was made famous by our former idiot governor. You know, the same person that is running the entire country so well now. 
I mostly agree with the sentiments splen shared. Murder is murder is murder. I'm deeply opposed to say the least. |
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dungeon92
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: eye for an eye |
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An eye for an eye may make the world blind, but then it makes the world wary of doing wrong, democracy favors ones life over others then the ideal that all are equal null and void since if truly one life is equal to another then payment of equal and not lesser value must be given. These ideals are of true equality for a society that cares not your rank, your crimes, your family but of your rights.
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seems I see a future in remote Idaho or Montana for someone.
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dungeon92
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: really |
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| Bobaloo wrote: | | seems I see a future in remote Idaho or Montana for someone. |
I see a future of true political freedom with a great struggle in the effort to attain such.
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splen
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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'True political freedom'
For me that goes down as the most ambiguous statement of the day
freedom for whom? because I know for a fact that I aint gettin any freeer!
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Ben Tex
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I feel free until it comes time to pay taxes.  |
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Bobaloo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: really |
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Hmm, how are you struggling? People struggle every day just to make do.
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