Re: Death penalty
pcg <[email protected]>
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>> And I've only talked about it as a deterrent for the person being >> executed. > > Again, that's not a deterrent, it's a punishment. > > **so is life. You take their liberty forever. Life imprisonment is a method of protecting society, not "punishing" the convicted. > **And since life sentences are not always life sentences, they don’t really > mean anything either. That's a separate issue. I agree that life sentences should be upheld, unless new evidence comes to light. > You don't get to determine when God's grace is finished. To be so > presumptuous is not only terrifying, but contemptible. It's truly > difficult for me to imagine greater hubris. God commanded you not to > murder, and you're going to demand that He step aside while we exact > our vengeance? Count me out, please. > > **God also commanded a murderer be put to death didn’t he? You obey on one > hand and ignore on the other? > > **No...I don’t really think that, but effectively if you toss around God, > you have to deal with all things He said. I'm perfectly fine with that. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot