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Originally Posted by xepherys
When a dog visciously attacks someone, they are put down. Why is it different with a person? We are just animals, too. Also, methodically killing unarmed, incarcerated humans? Okay, how about we go for a little Running Man action? Then they can turn a profit, and create entertainment. Plus, if they get whacked, they probably weren't fully unarmed.
I just don't see the sense in keeping refuse around to rot, even if said refuse happend to be made of the same carbon I am. |
A dog doesn't have to kill someone to be put down. Should we "put down" those who have attacked people without killing them just in case they manage to kill someone the next time? Or do we view human life with a higher regard? I think its obvious we do, or at least the mythology of our "civilization" says that we do.
As for the Running Man thing. I realize you're joking, but maybe you also know that the story, as originally written, is a social commentary meant to expose the growing indifference we have
as a society, much like psychopathic killers, to dehumanize the lives that we view as expendable.
We just have intractably different views on this subject, I guess. But I hope you can agree that all the justice, financial waste, humane or not humane arguments most often put forth by those who favor the death penalty are spurious rationalizations for a reality they have trouble admitting to. That they just want to take out the garbage. With the exception of Halx and now yourself, of course.
Truthfully, I have much more tolerance and respect for those who are willing to be brutally honest about it.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Tell that to guards who are constantly under threat of attack from inmates who are in on consecutive life sentences. If there is nothing they fear that makes them dangerous to everyone around them as long as they live.
Talk to prison guards. They will tell you that inmates are rarely completely unarmed. No matter how much security you put in a prison the prisoners will ALWAYS endanger the guards. They ALWAYS have the opportunity to kill again and they almost always try, for the rest of their lives.
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Is someone forcing them to be prison guards? If every prisoner serving a life term for murder was trying to kill prison guards, there would be no prison guards. Are you now proposing that we kill every person in prison on capital murder charges, whether they would ever attempt to take another life or not, just in case they try to kill a prison guard? Again this is a rationalization that does not support the death penalty, nor does it address my argument.