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...This supposed to be a tounge twister? |
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People call it justice, but what they really mean is revenge. Say the murderer is put to
death...then what? It doesn't bring back your loved one. It probably won't bring closure to your
life and end your suffering. Who are WE to play god by making the decision to take someone's life?
Besides that, depending on your beliefs, maybe prison is more of a punishment than death.
"Revenge or vengeance consists primarily of retaliation against a person or group in response to
perceived wrongdoing. Although many aspects of revenge resemble or echo the concept of justice,
revenge usually has a more injurious than harmonious goal." |
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I read an article about two unsavory men who grabbed a twelve year old girl walking down a road...
They put her into their truck and took her to a undisclosed area, pored gasoline on a rag stuffed
it into her mouth then proceeded to rape and sodomize this little girl and strangle her to death.
These two animals left
her little body right there....like trash on the side of the road... No thought on any humanistic
level to the severity of what they
both had done...My first reaction kill them ..don't wait for the trial... Just kill them both...Our
world is not that simple... Hundreds of thousands of dollars in court costs later they would
eventually die...The fact that these two predators were once children who most likely had a terrible
childhood themselves.Nobody intervened on their turmoil and sadness then... Now it's too
late... Why spend this much on someone who just isn't worth it.. The hope in changing this process
is in the youth...Why not take those thousands or millions in court costs and push prevention...
More social workers targeting problematic homes, more resources for families, better opportunity in
educating people... These two men never in their lives would have the ability to acquire jobs that
would even come close to the debt of their court costs on death row... Let them rot in jail... No
privileges..bread and water... Save the money ... Intervene in the hopeful not the hopeless.... |
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I completely agree. It makes no sense to punish someone who has killed by sending them on death row
to deter other people from killing. That therefore makes you as bad the killer. Lifetime jail
sentences yes, but not killing them. |
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It is wrong,
Its being a hypocrite.
Your saying its wrong to kill,
but you would go and do it?
It doesn't make any sense?
If someone killed your loved one,
Would you want someone like you to go through that?
Would you want to sink as low and kill them back?
Or make them think about what they did for the rest of their life... |
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If it is done to show people its wrong there couldn't be a worse example to set. But if your aim is
to scare people into thinking this will happen to you if you do it, then it is effective certainly.
(although you wouldn't think it given all the murders committed today) |
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First off, no one says that, therefore the whole question is irrelevant. If that were the point of
the death penalty, then I agree, it would be wrong. But it's just a strawman.
The real point of the death penalty is to punish those who *MURDER*, which is killing not sanctioned
by the law. There's nothing particularly wrong with killing, we do it every day. You can kill in
self-defense, you can kill the enemy in a war. You can kill animals for food. There are plenty of
perfectly legal, perfectly good reasons to kill and only a fool would claim otherwise.
However, it's when that killing becomes a heinous crime, as defined by our criminal codes, when
people commit such terrible and unjustifiable acts that they lose, according to the rules we operate
our societies under, the right to breathe the same air as civilized folks, that murderers deserve to
be put to death.
So stop beating a strawman and start dealing with reality. |
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Human life is sacred (with some necessary presumptions, like that all people are equal). We cannot
earn this trait; it is inherent to who we are as humans. Just as we cannot earn the status of being
protected by our sanctity, we cannot lose this sanctity of our lives. No matter what we do, our
lives are sacred. We are special. We do not deserve life to begin with, but we also do not have the
right to determine who deserves life and who doesn't.
Just because someone is a murderer does not make that person any less human. Even the murderer's
life is equal to everyone else's. What he has done does not change his status as a human, and
therefore it is wrong to kill him. What he has done does, however, limit his status in society.
While he has the right to live, he does not have the right to live with and like everybody else -
for everybody's protection and as a deterrent from committing further crimes. |
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I for one and currently the only one agree because it is hypocritical to say that killing is bad to
a person who has just killed but put him or her on death trial, sure they killed but why does
America always want to be the Hypocrite (or however its spelled). "Killing is Wrong, Lets Not make
them learn their lesson the hard way and just take a life, even though we have nothing to gain, were
just a hypocrite."(i cant spell this word) |
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This title made me laugh. Clever wording. Props to you my good man. This is his punishment not a
display for everyone else. It's not like their executing people in town square (or are they?). |
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No its is right. What is wrong with The Death Penalty is, they get the wrong person, and they so
keep getting the wrong person, that justjay, is murder. |
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Killing People Who Kill People To Show People That Killing Is Wrong.
Nothing wrong in that statement
In my view killing a human is the most awful crime which deserves the most horrible punishment.
And if there was any harder punishment than death, then I would be in harmony with it |
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If you know you're going to die would you go and kill someone |
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We kill people who kill people so they don't kill people again. It doesn't matter if anyone learns
anything from it. If it were a deterent, murder would have been a crime of the past centuries ago. |
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I think so. |
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It isn't done to show people that killing is wrong. Surely people realise that murdering is wrong
already. It is done for justice, because that person has no right and no need to live anymore.
Justjay says it best when he talks about the satisfaction and the closure it brings to the victims
families. That is the reason, not to tell people murder is a bad thing, we should know this
already. |
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Truthfully. When i first heard that, i was like whoa!
We do not execute murderers to show people murder is wrong. We execute people for justice.
If someone brutally raped and murdered your mother, would you want him sitting in jail for the rest
of his life BREATHING, sleeping, eating watching T.V., going outside to the yard, having friends. I
highly doubt it.
I know id want him DEAD. Id want him off the face of this earth.
And watching him die behind glass, and knowing that HE knows I'm there watching him. Would be
satisfaction enough.
And as for what i began with. Yeah the government does not kill people to prove a point. They
execute, making sure they can take, what they dish out. |
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11 Aug 2008 09:22
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