Capital Punishment Quotes

what sayest ye?

1. Lon Clay Hill 3.1.10 / 4pm

   2 more important sources of Christian pacifism AND opposition to the Death Penalty are the Sermon on the Mount and the Martyrdom of the Early Christians. In this case, the actual text of the New Testament is also quite relevant.
   In my view, Justice Scalia’s particular brand of Christianity with its frequent extreme deference towards both governmental authority and public clamor in criminal matters and his own interpretation of the 8th Amendment do not comport with a spirit of due deference to the better angels of our nature. In other words, the spirit with which we interpret legal or religious words are, in fact, frequently determinative and should be honestly admitted.

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2. CMSgt Ed Beard, USAF, Ret 3.16.10 / 9pm

   Sorry, but here in the real world, he who lives by the book
   will die by the sword. Christianity is a wonderful general
   guideline for living, but will never work as long as evil
   esists in the world. Maybe in the next life?

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   1. Greg Danielson 4.2.10 / 12pm

      Ed, You are right.

      Life is messy. One must choose how to deal with the grey areas that we encounter. God gave us freedom of choice and the worst thing we can do is not to choose what we think is right. The human condition is such that we make mistakes sometimes….at least those of us that dty to DO something.

      I can see that you are a master sergent in the USAF. You know about leadership, FXXX-ups and everything that comes in between. Bravo to you.

      The Bible is a good guideline for those messy situations that we as humans get into sometimes. Buddism and Islam are as effective when believed in by an educated population.

      I believe that a change is needed in the American culture where teachers and education are a first priority. Education and a skill base gives people self worth and removes the incentives for violent crime.

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3. BILL FAHY 3.18.10 / 3pm

   Schopenhauer said (obviously after a great deal of thought!!!) – that “man is a metaphysical animal”. However, he said “the more unintelligent a man is the less mysterious existence seems to him”. Well I don’t consider myself unintelligent to a very great extent but for me existence is just that – existence. Where’s the mystery?
   On the other hand my atheistic pessimism regards man as an animal and my attitude to these perverts and muggers, not to mention murderers is that they are badly behaved animals.
   What happens to a savage dog or marauding elephant? They are “put down”. OK so after tracking the elephant the wrong one was shot but —- it’s only an animal. The big difference here is that it won’t stop the others from marauding but the so called humans.
   might think twice

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4. ELLE LIJA 3.19.10 / 10am

   crime is too rampant ,capital punishment a deterrant,it shoukd also include rape, stealing should be made punishable by an arm and a leg.

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5. ELLE LIJA 3.19.10 / 10am

   I have seen criminals in the making,there are womwn who only want to have sex and do not care about the consequences,they make children and do not care what the children do to law abiding citizen,they train the children to be wicked to their neighbours ,if the neighbours are better off than them,they sometimes hacked their neighbours to death because their children tell them lies,they are wicked and evil,

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6. ELLE LIJA 3.19.10 / 10am

   Train the childre properly ,teach them to be respectful to love other human beings,to be king and lend a helping hand to someone to cross the street,to say please and thank you,yes mam,yes thanks ,no thanks ,good morning and good evening,do not shout obsenities ,and for god’s sake do not have sex behind a curtain seperating your bedroom from the children’s,I hope these few tips would help to change some young criminals in the making,

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7. m warren 3.31.10 / 4am

   I have two problems with executions. Firstly,my grandfather was a hangmans assistant after WW1 and had to quit after a while. You should try doing it if you are in favour. Secondly, if a man kills a child, why would it make sense to send the man to wherever the child is now-unless you are 100% sure about heaven & hell and your judgement is as good as God’s. Keeping murderers away from their victims for as long as possible might seem to be quite a sensible idea. They don’t have to be happy.

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8. CMSgt Ed Beard, USAF, Ret 3.31.10 / 8pm

   It is quite possible that you grandfather may have participated in unjust executions as during the post-WWI
   era we didn’t have the sophisticated methods of collecting irrefutable evidence that we do now. Do you think that pathological murders go to the same place as murdered,
   innocent children? That is inane. I profess no religion and
   do not believe in heaven or hell. Only oblivion. Are you so naive as to believe that murderers convicted to life in prison are actually going to repent and ever feel any compassion towards their victims? These murderers are
   no different than some deadly diseases such as cancer.
   Do you think cancer ever feels any remorse? Of course not. The only cure for cancer is to kill the cancerous cells
   and hope we got them all. I advocate that we totally destroy sociopaths and psychopaths.just as we would a cancer. Stay happy in your Utopia. When you or one of your loved ones is viciously murdered by one of these
   subhumans please write back and tell me how you feel then

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