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Originally Posted by tiberry
Well Harry, I'll have to say that you're pretty thorough in presenting evidence supporting other's acceptance of your beliefs. Let me ask you:
Are your beliefs influenced by the apparent preponderance of evidence showing that others share your beliefs or are you firm in your beliefs regardless of what a skilled (and determined) researcher/debator can assemble?
I'm willing to postulate that if I or someone else were determined enough, we could produce just as much evidence supporting the DP as you've presented against it - thereby reducing it to a function of determination and debating prowess.
I don't mean to be confrontational - I respect your thoroghness and to make decisions in the absence of fact would be silly. Just wondering what your "gut feeling" tells you.
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my beliefs are my beliefs. that others happen to share them is irrelevant. in my gut, i think it's wrong for the state to execute prisoners. it makes us no better than them. if you want to live in a society with one foot in the past, that's your decision, but one i don't support. innocents have been exonerated after the execution has been carried throuhg. the money spent on prosecuting those cases could be put to better uses. the deterrent effect doesn't seem work. i have looked at the studies that say it does and i find myself unconvinced. (i don't feel the need to post the pro-death side, this isn't an essay after all). i don't see a reason to support the death penatly other than for revenge, and that's far from a compelling reason.