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I had sorta' overdosed on the politics board up until the election, but am slowly starting to read it again.

This is an interesting point, but it should be approached from a couple of different angles.
During the Kobe Bryant trial there was some talk about our nation's rape laws and how they had become out of whack because politicians can "get tough on crime" by increasing sentences, and could increase sentences for rape to appeal to women voters. In my opinion, it has reached absurdity when you can get longer in prison for stabbing them with a penis than you would get for stabbing them with a knife. In that sense, the death penalty for sodomy seems pretty harsh, too.

From the other side, I'll tell you the story of a kid in my wife's third grade classroom in one of her first years of teaching. The school counselor had a meeting with her before he came into her class during the middle of the year. He started school there after being taken away and living with new foster parents. His ass no longer worked, because he had been abused so much. That sounds crude, but it's accurate. I get upset just writing about it. The kid had accidents (alot) and eventually started wearing a modified diaper. Whenever I would hear about it, it made me really want to kill the man that had done this.

Well, my original intention was to then talk about how if we value life, then the taking of a life as punishment for anything less than the taking of another life does not make sense. But after thinking about that kid, unless some doctor somewhere can do asshole transplants, his life is pretty much over. Can you imagine? Maybe they should be killed.

Well, no, because as of right now it costs the state more to execute someone than it does to just keep them locked up until they die.

Hell, I don't know anymore.