Re: [Bulk] Re: Death penalty
pcg <[email protected]>
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>> Not a very good one, I might add. Someone who objects >> to execution on the grounds that it cuts short a person's >> time to find redemption isn't likely to be persuaded by the >> counter (sincere or otherwise) that you're merely speeding >> up the process. > > Its no better or worse than the argument that it is a counter > against. No one can say with, anything close to certainty, > what will motivate a particular individual to seek > redemption/forgiveness. Using it one way or the other in > an argument on capital punishment seems rather silly to me. No one can say, with anything close to certainty, what will motivate a child to seek success as an adult, either. But anyone in their right mind will give their child every possible opportunity to allow that to happen. The point is plain. Allowing someone a longer opportunity doesn't ensure that they will find redemption, no -- but cutting their time short (particularly when we have no recommendation from God to do so) inarguably interferes with that opportunity. I don't feel comfortable making that decision, particularly when my own eternal redemption is so very undeserved. The parable of the debtors comes to mind, here: The servant fell on his knees before him. "Be patient with me," he begged, "and I will pay back everything." The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go. But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denari. He grabbed him and began to choke him. "Pay back what you owe me," he demanded. His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, "Be patient with me, and I will pay you back." But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened. Then the master called the servant in. "You wicked servant," he said. "I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?" -- -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