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Originally Posted by MageB420666
I would hardly consider a 16 or 17 year old a "child". They are old enough that they are capable of making their own decisions and facing the consequences.
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Well, what you consider is not really relevant. Those under 18 are considered children, or if you prefer "juveniles". That's the legal definition.
I'm glad you're not running things. :-)
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And no my idea is not complete and utter bullshit. This is a poor country with a huge population. Keeping prisoners is very expensive, why should they waste resources taking care of criminals(I mean people who commit murder, rape, and various other severe crimes, not every common theif or political prisoner)?
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Because the death penalty is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I appreciate you don't share my opinion, but I firmly believe taking human life is not justified.
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And yes in their case I would consider mandatory abortions after a second(i'm pretty sure they can have two kids) child to be better than the alternative, which is having the population outgrow the local food supply and have the kids die slowly from starvation and malnutrition.
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Again, despite my attempts to see your point of view, this is utter nonesense. Chinese families with more than one (or even two) children are not slowly dying of starvation. I am at a complete and utter loss that you would even
consider mandatory abortions. There's nothing really I can say to that...
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Just because we produce enough food to feed twice the world's population does not mean it's getting distributed all over the world. Although that problem is going to sort istself out sooner or later, the culture values male children for inheritence purposes and therefore most couples get an abortion if the child is not male, due to the limit on children allowed per person, which will lead to a great imbalance between men and women over there, so they will actually be incapable of having as many children. It sucks, but that's life.
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Very well and good, but that's got nothing to do with industrialized state sponsored murder, which is what these so-called "Death Vans" are...
Mr Mephisto