McGentrix
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2003 06:00 pm
D'artagnan wrote:
Yeah. There was no question of his guilt either, if memory serves...


I guess that's why we don't let Mob Rule be a system of justice.

You know, that whole Innocent until PROVEN guilty thing that we have in America.
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Dartagnan
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2003 06:00 pm
Yeah. There was no question of his guilt either, if memory serves...
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patiodog
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2003 06:00 pm
Now if there'd just been a little mob-style justice for that poor bastard they initially picked up for the trash-can bomb at the Atlanta Olympics...
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Montana
 
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Reply Thu 12 Jun, 2003 10:27 pm
Frank Apisa wrote:
Since I think a life term in prision without a chance of parole is harsher punishment than execution, I will continue to favor that avenue.



My thoughts exactly.
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Montana
 
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Reply Thu 12 Jun, 2003 10:29 pm
Setanta wrote:
Yeah, an' then, afterwards:

"OOooops, we goofed, sorry, my bad . . . "


Yup. That about covers it.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 12 Jun, 2003 10:53 pm
Sort of like what we did to Iraq. Oooops, sorry. We didn't mean to kill over 3000 of you on bad information.
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Montana
 
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Reply Thu 12 Jun, 2003 11:44 pm
Exactly!
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McGentrix
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 06:50 am
Rolling Eyes
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au1929
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 06:58 am
It sounds like "NIMBY" Not in my back yard. As long as the crime was committed against someone else or in some one else's community people are against capital punishment. I wonder how you would feel if the crime struck close to home.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:04 am
What a load of crap, i'd feel the same way . . . you've no ground to make such an assumption . . .
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au1929
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:11 am
Setanta
Did not make an assumption just asked a question.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:16 am
Actually, you prefaced that "question" with two declaratory sentences, and you appended no question mark to the final sentence. You did indeed make a statement, two of them:

Quote:
It sounds like "NIMBY" Not in my back yard. As long as the crime was committed against someone else or in some one else's community people are against capital punishment.


That was tendencious, and rude . . . and an assumption on the strength and depth of the convictions of others with whom you simply disagree . . . bad stuff this . . .
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:20 am
au1929 wrote:
I wonder how you would feel if the crime struck close to home.

which I see as supporting the contention that the death penality is an emotional appeal to revenge.
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au1929
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:38 am
dyslexia

I
Quote:
see as supporting the contention that the death penalty is an emotional appeal to revenge.





IMO that is the motivation at times. However, there are those who believe it is the deserved punishment for the commission of a heinous crime.

Setanta
I will make sure I put a question mark at the end of a question.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:41 am
Yeah, right, as though that were my point . . . nice evasion of the substance of what i wrote, there, Boss . . .
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:42 am
Actually, many people who are victims of horrendous crimes rise above the primitive revenge response.

Some, of course, do not - but the resort to "you would think differently if it happened to you" is often factually, as well as always rationally, false.
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au1929
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 07:59 am
dlowan
my question was
I wonder how you would feel if the crime struck close to home

Not : "you would think differently if it happened to you"
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 08:01 am
Not an implied thought, Au?
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blatham
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 08:02 am
au apparently seems to think that a biblical passage offers some fundamental moral absolute. If so - even with the contradiction that other such passages (somehow) don't have this absolute quality - then let's just acknowledge that he has a fixed idea not ammenable to rationality.
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au1929
 
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Reply Fri 13 Jun, 2003 08:09 am
Setanta
It sounds like "NIMBY" Not in my back yard. As long as the crime was committed against someone else or in some one else's community people are against capital punishment.
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