[kj] OT: Tookie and Arnie

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

At 14:23 13/12/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>So if it was your dad/mum/son or daughter who was gunned down at the whim 
>of a bully and destroyed your happiness what would your perspective be?


Believe me Pat, I've thought about this... I'd want to kill them, pure and 
simple. But that would be an emotional reaction, and I think that stuff 
like the death penalty needs a more objective view. I really fail to see 
any decent argument for it, and mostly it just ends up being more like a 
revenge-killing, sanctioned by the State (the very ones who say it's wrong 
to kill... well, in most cases).
Dave in Edinburgh




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>On 12/13/05, <mailto:gingoblin at easynet.co.uk>gingoblin at easynet.co.uk 
><<mailto:gingoblin at easynet.co.uk>gingoblin at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>I just fail to see what "good" was extracted from killing him. Is the world
>safer? Do the families of the people he supposedly killed feel better? Are
>there people thinking "no, I won't commit crimes 'cos i might get
>executed"?  Oh sorry, I forgot, The Terminator gets to please all the
>bloody-thirsty, revenge-driven pricks he counts as votes.
>The death penalty is just fucked.
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>Oh and if he was just trying to get a reprieve by pretending to be a man of
>peace... even if he WAS... I don't see how the State killing him has had
>any positive effect. By all accounts, William's writing DID have some good
>effect, even if he was faking it like you think Tim.  We'll certainly never
>know now.
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>It still amazes me a "civilised" (yeah, I know) country like the US still
>has the death penalty. Then again, with all the killing-for-peace going on,
>nothing should surprise me these days.
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>Pat
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