Re: The Death Penalty
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:42 pm
Actually, when I see abortion protestors I picket THEM. I've done it 3 times now, and I have to say, its quite fun to section them off in yellow tape while blaring Dimmu Borgir from my radio.Helbaworshipper wrote:The biggest problem is that argument makes it hard to decide what's more humane: Euthanasia or the Death Penalty. In all honesty, both subjects are a loaded gun. Right on par with the abortion argument.Erranty wrote:I've always though of it more as keeping ourselves from further harm. I mean, when you tell someone "If you do this very bad thing, we will kill you." and they do it anyway, isn't that the same as suicide by proxy? So technically the death penalty is murder, but assisted suicide. Or for a more to the point example, I don't really see it as being any different from putting down a rabid or vicious dog.Hybrid wrote:And yet isn't that sense of morality and ideals the reason we are forcing ourselves to make such a decision in the first place?Erranty wrote:Sometimes it takes a cold, logical person to make truly hard decisions, and any sense of morality and ideals only gets in the way.
HOWEVER, the death penalty itself is a problematic issue. It shouldn't have to exist, but it does because we use it to control people. In England being drawn and quartered was something people went out to see.