Re: [Bulk] Re: Death penalty
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Karl <[email protected]> wrote: > An extreme example, of course, but with a germ of similarity. > > **a very tiny germ. Seriously I think that is a very unfair analogy. Well, yeah, unfair to compare domestic violence victims to murderers. But they are both cases where the people aren't *really* "choosing" what others do to them. I mean, you might as well say that murderers serving prison sentences "chose" to have their cellmates rape them. Not quite. > Like I > said to Mike a little while back, our point isn't what a given > murderer deserves but what we as a society want to dish out. > > **and right now, more of society wants the worst of our murderers to pay that > price with their own lives. We as a society is a very squishy standard isn’t > it? I don't see what's squishy. I didn't say my views are shared by a majority of society. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot