Re: Death penalty

> I sincerely respect true pacifism, even if I disagree with it.  What I don't
> respect is convenient pacifism.

But you don't appear to make allowance for any other kind. Pacificism
is not passive-ism. (Hey, I just made that up. I should copywrite it
and sell t-shirts.) I don't have a problem with calling in others to
help me when someone is threatening me or my family. I have no problem
physically coercing another person into submission. But I simply do
not agree that calling for help is an implicit acknowledgement that
said help might kill the offender -- even when (lord, *especially*
when) the help I'm enlisting is from the police.

In other words, yes, it's possible that they might kill the offender.
Anything is *possible.* But I don't think it's a reasonable
expectation. I also feel that, however strongly you may feel
otherwise, you'd have a hard time finding a lot of official support
for your position. As I said, we had an instance like that here
locally, and it resulted in the shooter losing his job, and the city
being sued.

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