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Originally Posted by willravel
It's really not that simple. I honestly believe that the state does NOT have the right to take a persons life, a.k.a. capitol punishment. I have a friend who swears it's the right of the people to have justice and remove the evil from the world by killing those we have proven guilty. Who's right?
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The state has the right to provide capital punishment because we gave them that right. A majority of people said 'if you commit a capital crime, you lose your life'. There is nothing more simple than that.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Rights are relative, and the rights that we practice now have more to do with the history of government and less to do with philosophy or morality.
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rights are not relative. we all have rights that we are born with. As our life progresses, we can either retain those rights or give them up. If those rights are taken away from us without our consent, then we have two choices.....we can either submit and forfeit our rights or we can take them back by force.
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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