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offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 17:42 [#00410562]
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yep, anti anti anti! death is not right!

Bush wants them all dead, so that there are no people in
poverty anymore - as he thinks they're all criminals!
They're not making him any money!


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:42 [#00410564]
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again, i think its only right in some case

not every murder trial should end with a death penalty,

but how about one were a guy rapes a 14 year old girl, and
kills her.

he is obviously fucked up.

maybe in the grand scheme of things, we dont have the right
to kill people, but look at it on a smaller level.

we live in a society. weather we like it or not. society is
based on the fact that people have to work together, in
someway, for the society to work.

if a person has proven that they cannot contribute good to
the society, society has no use for them. espeically in the
case of serial murders, and whatnot, who obviously cannot be
changed.

why should we as a society feel obliged to keep someone
alive that only brings our society down?

again, im not saying its 100% right. in theroretical terms,
no man has the right to kill another. but this isnt theory,
this is application. and they can be 2 different things.



 

offline ExHore from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:43 [#00410566]
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anti-death
anti-killing
anti-war
anti-anti-marlowe :D


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-10-20 17:43 [#00410567]
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"you cant kill anyone just because they killed too"

absolutely, although i wouldn't say the US is the only
country to have capital punishment, perhaps the only one in
the western world


 

offline ExHore from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:43 [#00410568]
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haha its zeus


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-10-20 17:44 [#00410569]
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noone deserves to die imo


 

offline ExHore from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:45 [#00410570]
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yeah, cute puppy


 

offline ExHore from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:46 [#00410572]
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[Mick Travis] yes
[n i g gals] so jedi chris and me arent friends
anymore :(
[n i g gals] cuz of YOU MARLOWE
[n i g gals] i liked his paintings :(


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-10-20 17:47 [#00410573]
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if someone does something really fucked up, in a civilised
scoiey don't we have a duty to help them in some way rather
than frying them in a chair?


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 17:47 [#00410574]
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people who do not abide by the rules of society are sent to
prison.

killing people who "cannot contribute good to the society"
reminds me of a nazi point of view.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-10-20 17:47 [#00410575]
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That's right, Dobbin - the only country in the "civilised"
world to retain the Death Penalty - which puts it on a par
with most of the countries "it" hates


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-10-20 17:48 [#00410576]
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Do you pro death penalty people also support the amputation
of the criminal's limbs?


 

offline MachineofGod from the land of halo's (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:50 [#00410577]
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i agree with mylittlesister on that nazi stuff. i mean if
you look back at the holocaust hardly any german's went
against hitler or stood up to say what they were doing was
wrong. its the same sort of principle here just much
smaller. usa government=nazis


 

offline MachineofGod from the land of halo's (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:50 [#00410578]
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have you noticed also that many people who support death
penalty are against abortion?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:53 [#00410579]
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im pro abortion


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 17:53 [#00410580]
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well, pro choice


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 17:54 [#00410581]
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obedience to authority.... Milgram's experiment.

Hofling (1966) did an experiment on nurses aswell, to see if
they obeyed doctors to give an overdose to a patient. 21 of
22 nurses gave the injection :-/



 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 17:55 [#00410582]
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yeah, pro choice all the way


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 17:56 [#00410583]
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"why should we as a society feel obliged to keep someone
alive that only brings our society down?"

I can sort of see your point there. Maybe if a person
intentionally kills someone, he uses up his own right to
live. If it would have been a law of nature... (you kill
someone, and immediately your body stops functioning and you
drop that)... i wouldn't think that was unfair in any way.

But it's not a natural law... and for mankind to take it
upon themselves to kill a murderer.... just feels so wrong
to me. It also doesn't solve anything, and i doubt it will
make anyone feel better. (i don't think i would feel any
relief if someone i love was killed, and the murderer would
be sentenced to death).

If you put murderers in jail for the rest of your life, you
reach the same goal of keeping them out of society. I don't
really see the extra value of having them killed.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 17:59 [#00410585]
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*for the rest of their lives


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:00 [#00410586]
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how about the mother lion who kills the animal that ate its
young?

theres natural law for ya


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:00 [#00410588]
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also:

*drop dead

shit, better start using that preview-button again :-)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-10-20 18:02 [#00410589]
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i can try imagine myself if i would be sentenced to death-i
would go mad probably
i dont think any person should experience this no matter
what they did


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:02 [#00410590]
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she's probably very hungry


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:04 [#00410591]
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i doubt the lion kills that animal BECAUSE it ate her young?
(not really an expert on lions, but i doubt they are able to
get feelings of revenge... she'd probably just kill it to
then eat it herself).

Animals are not able to make moral decisions imo. That's
what makes humans so unique


 

offline Gubb on 2002-10-20 18:07 [#00410595]
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the praying mantis female eats the male when they have sex..
you dont see humans do that, do you? its stupid to try to
draw parallels to animals when humans are infact on an
higher level of consiousness. (atleas most are..)


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:07 [#00410596]
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bullshit she wouldnt kill it cause it ate her kids

animals are very defensive of thier young

but humans are animals as well. sometimes we think we are
more then that. we are still governed by the same things
that animals are governed by.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:07 [#00410597]
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yes indeed... have you seen the movie 'dead man walking'?
(or any of the other 99283 movies about deathrow ;-))... it
nearly made me cry (okay i'll admit: it actually did make me
cry)... it's told so well that you start to imagine sean
penn's feelings... not a very pleasant movie :-/


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:08 [#00410600]
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gubb, completly disagree


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-10-20 18:11 [#00410602]
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sean penn is great in every movie
and about dead man walking-it gives you an idea but im sure
is no where near to the actuall feeling


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:11 [#00410603]
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Also... the animal that killed her young, just did it
because it wanted food. Animals just eat each other... you
cannot judge them or blame them for it.

It's not like when a human kills another human at all.

I actually disagree and think that humans are very different
from other animals. Animals probably don't even think about
it when they eat other animals... they just don't know any
better and they don't have a choice.

Humans do.


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:11 [#00410604]
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we maybe governed by the same things, but we have a
conscience, which allows us to not do what these "things"
tell us to do.

If we couldn't control these things then there would be
rapes all the time, everywhere - this is because as soon as
puberty strikes males their body feels the need to
reproduce.


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:13 [#00410605]
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i might have to talk about this in my sociology class... see
what people think.


 

offline Gubb on 2002-10-20 18:13 [#00410606]
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oh yeah? do you often eat your partners after sex?


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:13 [#00410607]
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true... but movies like that are probably as close to that
feeling as you can get... unless you're sentenced in a
deathrow yourself.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:15 [#00410608]
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if a person murders someone, they are being selfish.

they arnt thinking of the other person. they arnt thinking
of the people that know the person. they arnt thinking of
the effects it will have on others.

so why then must we care about how they feel?

im sure its an aweful feeling knowing that you are goin to
die. but if they are truely guilty of murder, and thus
sentenced to death, I dont have sympathy for them.



 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:16 [#00410611]
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HAHAHA, well said! :D


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-10-20 18:16 [#00410613]
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well actually i get a better felling if i imagine myself in
that situation-i mean the felling when you know you've got
one hour left-i would probably have a heart attack


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:17 [#00410614]
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what about the murderer's family/families?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-10-20 18:17 [#00410615]
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during ;)


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-10-20 18:18 [#00410616]
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How do you feel about torturing criminals? cutting off
hands, etc?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-10-20 18:18 [#00410617]
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well they're still human arnt they?
i mean to cause anyone that feeling its just totally
unhumane


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:19 [#00410618]
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that's like when i did history about charles I, and when
people write poems just before they are about to die - scary
stuff!


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:20 [#00410619]
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animals also kill other animals just for territorial
reasons.

defending their young was only one example.



 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:20 [#00410620]
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well i'm not saying it's okay to kill someone. And it's not
because i feel so bad for these murderers that I am against
the death penalty

But isn't a society that sentences people to death just as
guilty of murder? I'm sure a murderer also feels he has a
very good reason to kill someone... still doesn't make it
right... no matter how good your reason is.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:21 [#00410621]
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torturing criminals?

it serves no purpose.

killing them would be to completly rid them from society.

torture would not solve anything


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-20 18:23 [#00410622]
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tell me what good, for society, it does to keep a criminal
alive?



 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:23 [#00410623]
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oh well, im off to bed, nice talking.

night night, dont kill anyone!


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-10-20 18:24 [#00410624]
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we should not ask for good from things, but we should try to
limit the bad... perhaps


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-10-20 18:25 [#00410625]
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yes but it's their instinct to kill other animals! It's no
different from their other instincts (sleeping, eating,
drinking, killing... i bet if you were a lion, there wasn't
any difference between all those things). An animal doesn't
understand the concept of something being "wrong" or
"right".

And to get back to that lion-mother... it might kill the
animal that ate her young as a part of her instinct to
defend it. But i really cannot imagine that she feels
anything like "that guy ate my baby, now he deserves to
die!"


 


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