Re: Death penalty
pcg <[email protected]>
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>> Of course, as that's precisely what it is. It serves no useful social >> purpose, neither as a deterrent nor as an implementation of justice. > >> ***I will never understand that attitude. > >>It's not an "attitude," it's a fact. Just because you don't like a > fact, that doesn't make it subjective.< > > Sorry, Paul its not a fact. It is your opinion and one you obviously believe > passionately in but the level of you passion does not make it a fact. I agree with your last point, but not with the former. Please show how the death penalty has served a useful social purpose. (To be clear, this would need to be a purpose that is not also served by imprisonment.) >>I wonder how realistic it seemed to the 45 murdered by the state so > far this year.< > > I'm sorry but this misuse of language is really sloppy and intellectually > dishonest. Murder is intrinsically a legal term. Well, I'm not a lawyer, and we're not in a court room, so I'm not sure how that's relevant. I use the term "murder" because it's an easy shorthand, but if it bothers you and you prefer "immoral homicide," that's fair enough. -- -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