Hain

I have been hesitant about posting this because I am riddiculed and criticized for believing it. This is a thread about the death penalty, and something else. By Conceit I do not mean to be vain, I mean a complicated metaphor. The topics here are not normally considered together, thus are a conceit.

I apologize right now incase I offend anyone, and most likely everyone that reads this.

First I must get this out of the way: If you have read some of my other posts and feel that I am being hypocritical about this issue, I am not. The post on my belief of the potential of people in the "Why are you Christian?" thread never stated anything what I am about to propose.

I recently witnessed a debate in my school about the death penalty. Both sides were required to present the information each would argue to the teacher before the actual debate because certain resources conflicted. And unfortunately the information was accurate and some contradictory. It was argued whether or not the cost of keeping a person alive for the rest of their life in prison was more than sentencing them to death. During this argument it came to me a term that sometimes haunts me when I understand how rational my mind can be (read Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment if you would like the evils of a rationalistic mind).

Forfeited rights of a human: when an act that is classified as being wholly destructive to another human being, one can no longer be considered a human being.

I mean that the people that sit on death row or life in prison without parole are not human beings anymore because of the crimes that have been committed by them. To receive such sentences, one must have done something incredibly heinous: be a serial rapist, mass murderer… Those are only two types of people that I can perceive that should not be considered humans. The nature of these crimes is one where the criminal has taken away the rights of another human being, and I believe that the rights of that criminal are now forfeit.

“Where does this go?” many of you must ask disgustedly. I believe that criminals (serial offenders that confessed to their crimes and do not sincerely feel remorse for their actions) with life in prison without parole or are on death row now should be used for human experimentation. I believe that it is ridiculous that my tax dollars go to federally pay to keep this monster alive. Not only that, but one who is to be put to death cannot so be euthanized unless he or she is in complete physical and mental fitness. I cannot believe that before this criminal is to be executed, he/she must be in peak health to do so…

I believe that a person on their death bed has more right to life than a person on death row. I think that these criminals should be used to save the lives of others, either through organ donation or medical testing. Yes this is heartless but have any here lost people to criminals that did not deserve to live and no good came from their execution? Also has anyone lost a loved one to death row only to be proved innocent later? I am aware of the predetermining flaw in our justice system that must then make my concept flawed… What is your opinion on using prisoners for medical purposes? This topic doesn't end here and will touch everything from the Constitution to theology.

"If you have a mind to speak, I have an ear to listen."

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