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Re: Excellent news!
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Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:12:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Well, humans only live so long. I see little difference in a sentence of 40
years and one of 3 consecutive life sentences. I love it when someone
becomes eligible for parole after a couple of hundred years. Doesn’t anyone
find that the least bit absurd?
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Not sure where you are going with that since no one is going to live a couple of
hundred years.
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Assure me that everyone ever executed was guilty and I’ll agree to the death
penalty.
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Why?
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So we don’t murder innocent people.
My point exactly.
How so?
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Let’s stick to an example of a serial killer
who confesses. Should we execute him?
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No. There’s lots of people who confess to crimes that they haven’t committed.
But even if it is the most airtight case possible (apprehended on the spot with
the murder weapon in hand with 20 witness with a clear view all looking in the
direction at the time with video cameras, confesses AND the victim lives long
enough to name his killer), making a rule based on that seems foolish to me
since you don’t get cases only like that.
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If not, then we have murdered the innocent in the name of justice.
And, of course, we have.
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In theory then, all those that support the death
penalty should be executed. :-O
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Good thing for us then that you don’t believe in the death penalty-- hoisted
by your own Picard;-)
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But you believe, therefore you have to be executed by either yourself or another
believer in the death penalty - I rather like the domino approach with a huge
circle of death penalty supporters simultaneously slicing off the head of the
person in front of them in perfect unison. Would you prefer Dubya in front of
you and Jeb behind you, or the other way around? ;-)
I don’t enter into it at all (handing the petard with lit fuse - or Picard with
shaved head - back to you).
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(plowing through my ST:TNG collection; just finished season 1)
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Doesn’t Star Trek: Enterprise wrap up Real Soon Now? I want at least one more
bare vulcan babe’s body part before the end....
-->Bruce<--
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Well, that's my point. These types of absurd sentences are given out anyway. (...) We do that anyway with our system that releases criminals on technicalities and those criminals go on to kill again. (...) I was trying to focus specifically on (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks. Resume kicking position:-) (...) Well, humans only live so long. I see little difference in a sentence of 40 years and one of 3 consecutive life sentences. I love it when someone becomes eligible for parole after a couple of hundred (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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