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To say that people can forfeit their rights by virture of their actions seems to me to imply that rights are not inherent in people, but exist only because they are recognized by others. That's fine if you want to go that way, just hope that nobody ever decides not to recognize your rights because you're a murderer, or a pederast, or a drug dealer, or a whatever.
I don't oppose the death penalty because I care about the people on death row, I don't. I care about myself and don't like giving other people power over me. I'm not currently a murderer, and have no plans to become one, but every power or right we give the government is a right we lose for ourselves.
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You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.
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