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i think that passion might lose some of its edge if your 14 year old daughter was kidnapped, dragged into the woods and help captive for days while the offender raped and tortured her and finally dismembered her and had sex with pieces of her cold dead corpse. if you hold true to your passion after something like that...you're a better man than me.
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I missed this bit earlier.
Is this a real example of a past crime, or a hypothetical 'thought experiment'? I'd like to think I'd keep my moral stance. I guess it goes to the way you're brought up. In the US, the Death Penalty is considered appropriate. In Ireland, even though I remember when it was still on the Statute Books, it was not.
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tend to keep the moral framework into which they were born as they grow older.
I just don't believe in it. I don't think it does anything but satisfy the lust for vengence. It certainly does not deter violent crime. Or, if we take China as an example, it does not deter prostitution, tomb robberty, corruption, car or cattle stealing etc.
Mr Mephisto