Re: Death penalty
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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>If someone broke into my house, my first order of business would be to get myself and my family *away* from this person, *then* call the police to apprehend the intruder. It would not be to kill the intruder, nor to call someone else to come kill the intruder for me.< Are you effing serious? *Apprehend"? A home invasion in a occupied dwelling is a 20 year felony and you think that "apprehend" is the only possibility? If you don't think it is the only possibility then we go back again to your moral cowardice - you are willing to call someone else to do your dirty work for you. >If, as I suspect, you want to whittle this down to some kind of fantasy where it's a "him or me" battle stand-off to the death, I believe the right thing to do would be to lay down my life. I'm not supposed to love my life at all, let alone love it enough to kill someone else to preserve it. To die is gain, remember?< You really have a thing for straw men don't you? I completely understand wanting to have someone better qualified than you are to handle a violent situation. If you are unwilling to use deadly force to protect yourself or your family because of your pacifism, yet are willing to call someone else in to do it for you you are engaging is a most low form of moral cowardice. You think the act is so heinous that you won't do it yourself but are ok with someone doing it for you. >Whether or not I would be strong enough to let my conviction overcome fear or instinct, I don't know. I can only hope that I would.< Good to know you value your convictions over other's lives. Mike F. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot