what do you guys think. i went to a speech on it by a catholic archbishop... i think it should be used prudently
The Death Penalty?
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100% against it.
Despite what some may think we are not gods.
1 innocent life wrongly taken is not worth 10,000 guilty ones.
Despite what some may think we are not gods.
1 innocent life wrongly taken is not worth 10,000 guilty ones.
I absolutely agree. Who are we to say we are better than someone else?
People think that the death penalty deters... but most offenders do not weigh the cost/benefits before committing these acts.
and contrary to to the public belief... it is more expensive to put someone to death than giving them life in prison w/ out parole.
so what if someone is undoubtably guilty, like say for instance if the columbine kids didn't commit suicide, or if them being kids is a problem, someone who shoots up somewhere on videotape?
Then I am to assume you are against medical procedures that save lives as well as invitro and other medical procedures that allow women to get pregnent. We can play god to save/create lives but not take them:shrug:
100% for it in air-tight cases.
Then you must exhaust the mandatory appeal process and all of that.
One of my professors stated that a couple of her clients are lifers w/out possibility of parole... and they wish they were sentenced to death because they have MANDATORY appeals.
And the majority of executions have halted because of this appeal process.
has the supreme court ruled on the 3 drug cocktail yet?
This also put the halt on executions.
Again even if is unquestionable, we are not gods.
While society as a whole feels that murders are wrong for taking life, those that support the death penalty deem it acceptable or right to murder the murders.
That is quite a paradox is it not?
who's to say its an air-tight case?
What about the procedural aspects. What if evidence gets suppressed on a minor technicality on a case, but another case exactly the same... the evidence doesnt get suppressed?
And what about felony murder? that is a capital offense?
and also... even if you are an accessory in a murder... rob a mcdonalds and your counterpart shot and killed a clerk... you could be charged with capital murder... even if you didn't pull the trigger... its jsut crazy
Both are playing god my friend. If you believe taking a heart from one human and putting it into another is not playing god then we will just agree to disagree. You cant have it both ways!
How can you make that assumption?
Do you know what I view as the starting point of life? Is it at conception, sometime in the womb, or at first breath outside the womb.
War is a completely separate issue.
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How about if someone is attacking or threatening you, do you have the right to "play god" and kill them? you are still taking their life.
Really how is that? What medical procedures calls for the killing of a person to save another??
I would never support that either.
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first off, I was asking, and I'm curious to if you view all life as sacred or if its the context in which it is taken that determines the morality of the act
Stem cell research (according to some)
it was the context of his question.. ask him not me... i was just repeating his obvious intent
So then if you were choking and someone preformed the himlick (sp?) on you do you believe that is playing god?
I certainly dont. If you think that is the same as killing someone(in terms of god playing roles) than yes we will agree to disagree.
It is far from having it both ways!
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one life where one has chosen to brutally end another person's life, that is. not just any old law abidng person off the street.
