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Originally Posted by blade02
There's no need to try to rehabilitate people that commit crimes like this, and letting them live in prison is a burden on the system. I say do away with them.
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How would you categorize "crimes like this"? And could this include capital punishment for manslaughter, driving while impaired, and emotional abuse?
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Originally Posted by Fire
why is it wrong to let you decide whether the perpetrator should be executed, imprisoned for life or flung to a bunch of lions?
the perpetrator decided to commit the murder, and it would be, I think, harder for victims to order a gruesome death than you may think- it would make justice a more personal thing, and something that everyone would be forced to think on...
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This sounds like some form of Communism. I'm not sure if this is the way to go.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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