I've read lots of ugly stories, pan, lots and lots and lots of them. But not once have I reconsidered my own stance against the death penalty. Is it so difficult to conceive that people can have convictions that are not swayed by more ephemeral phenomena...like emotion? Ever consider how much atrocity and injustice in the world is the product of fear, hatred, revenge? From racism to the death penalty to the 'war on terror' to the 'war on illegal immigration.' It's all tied together by people relying on their emotional responses to shape their convictions and their worldview. And it paves the pathway to even more injustice and atrocity. It's a strange, fucked-up, inside-out self-fulfilling prophecy that I think we were supposed to learn from at some point.
If you want to be for the death penalty then be
for it. Don't try and convince people like myself that we need to be for it because a two year was viciously killed. Either you are for it or you aren't.
I'm with aberkok and host on this one.
That was a very insightful way of addressing the question, aberkok.
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
Wait, what? 
No you don't. All you have to do is make it available for cases like this. Making it legal lets courts use it in situations like this. Maybe this would be the only case they use it on this year, that's fine, but it needs to be legal for it to be an option.
I'm very confident that noone believes that the death penalty is 'right for everyone.' |
I think it's pretty obvious what he was saying.
Using specific examples of extreme brutality to wonder aloud why people don't support the death penalty is grandstanding.