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Until every single person is fed, clothed, and housed... has access to education, and opportunity... I will support the death penalty. When that utopia is finally reached, *THEN* I will agree we have the resources to keep murderers and such alive. Until then, they are nothing but a burden and a waste, and should receive *none* of the benefits our of society. Not food, shelter, or warmth. Simply turning them out doesn't work, they have to be removed. Since we have nowhere else to send them, I support the death penalty for those who have proven themselves to be unrehabilitatable. I find it amusing that I'm being cast as the monster, when I simply don't see why someone who beats a family to death with baseball bats in their sleep is held in higher regard than a needy child. Might want to rethink that. |
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Your other argument doesn't fly either. It's essentially, "Well, sure he was innocent, but it's OK that he's dead because his life would have been shit at this point anyway." You aren't any monster for supporting execution. I wouldn't blink an eye if these guys were killed by the state. I'd probably help if given the chance. |
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Two reasons: One, the death penalty is seen as final and irrevocable, so more resources are put into making damned sure this is the person responsible. Fine, I don't have a problem with that... but consider what it means. It means the other cases are not being given that same level of care. If you have to add *more* resources to ensure a guilty, and only a guilty person is convicted, then you're not doing the proper thing in the other cases. Two, the same groups that tout that death penalties cost more are the same ones bringing lawsuit after lawsuit, and driving up the costs. Um... conflict of interest much? That's like an environmental group firing up a coal plant, and then complaining about the air quality. Quote:
In fact, you're 180deg off of my argument - that a system that sends innocent people to their deaths *ALSO* sends innocent people to rot in jail for years or decades, and that *THAT* is the problem, even more so. It isn't that the death penalty is the only way to go, it's that the groups opposing it are focussing on the wrong damned issue. They're turning a blind eye to the actual cause, and are instead just obsessively focussing on one symptom. |
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Yeah, we all want a utopia, but it's not going to happen so we deal with what we have. The system doesn't work, but no one cares and fixing it would require a major overhaul of the penal system. I have a buddy that did graduate work on prisons, an aquantance who's a prison guard and a cousin who is a parole officer. All of them say the same thing: the public doesn't care enough to make the needed changes. So the best we can do is avoid the most serious problems, such as wasting money killing potentially innocent people.
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So we shouldn't even *try* and move towards a more perfect judicial system, because a perfect one isn't obtainable? We should instead continue on the completely broken method we have now, but oh, oops, this *one* punishment makes us feel queasy, so gee, let's get rid of *that* one so we can all pat each other and the back and say "Wow, we're such humanitarians!" while innocent people continue to sit out sentences for crimes they never committed?
Sorry, I utterly disagree. The problem I have with the anti-death-penalty movement is that they're not only concentrating on the wrong thing, *but doing so willfully*. They *KNOW* what the problem is - they use it as an argument! But golly gee, it's just to *hard* to fix *that*, so instead they're just going to shoot for the easy route, and feel like they're doing good. Hypocrites. The problem isn't the penalty. It's the system. Fix *that*, if you really give a damn. Otherwise you're just blowing smoke, and being a hypocrite. If the false positives approach zero, then we can say the system works. And then, and *only* then, does the argument of for/against the death penalty have any meaning. People are focussing on the wrong damned problem, and their ignorance is spreading. |
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To recap: I believe in: - Fixing the system to push the number of false convictions to zero *first* - Rehabilitation and education are cornerstones of any penal system that wants to place members back into society, and should be ubiquitous - There *are* people who are unrehabilitable - For those very small few who are unable to be rehabilitated, I would much rather spend resources on feeding and educating needy people who have never proven themselves a danger, than wasting it on someone who has proven themselves to be that danger - Once that point is reached, and since we have no distant shores to send these people to, I support the death penalty in a fast, humane manner People will disagree with various points on this list, but that's my position in a very large nutshell. And on that note, I'm going to drop out of this thread. Too much work today, too little time, and this is an issue that people in general don't budge on. Including me, so... Enjoyed the discussion though. Last edited by Kickaha : 2004-08-09 at 12:37. |
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what about wasting money housing for life habitual rapists and murders?
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See above. Are they rehabilitatable? If no, then I don't see the point keeping them around when other people need that food and shelter. Consider it a strong motivation for playing nice with the other members of society. And on *THAT* note... stepping out for a while. |
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lol, i was agreeing with you Kick. sorry if that wasn't clear.
when you have finite resources, you have to ask yourself where it's best spent. odds are the tens of thousands it would cost per year to house a life enrolled level 3 sex offender would do more good going to kids in classrooms around the state/country. |
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The fact is that since we know that there are many false convinctions and it costs more money to execute people the practical thing to do would be to eliminate the death penalty until those problems are solved. |
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Fix the system. That's the only reasonable answer. Calling for a moratorium on the death penalty while still allowing people to sit out sentences measured in decades unopposed is asinine to me. If you're going to call for a moratorium, do it across the board - but then you've got the little problem of what to *do* with people you don't want to make suffer through wronged sentences... but keep track of... oy. It's not a solvable problem in my mind. I was *this* close to agreeing that a temporary moratorium on death penalties was the answer - until I realized that that's all the further most groups and individuals want to take it. Once they get to that point, they're happy... using the 'the system is broken' argument was just a means to an end for them, and they lose the willpower to continue fighting the critical fight. So I say... if they really want to ensure that no innocent person is executed, make sure no innocent person is imprisoned. That's the *first* step, not the last one. There's where the energy and drive need to be focussed - concentrating on the death penalty is just a diversion and red herring. ARGH! Blast you people! I was going to go work! |
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A better justice system is a laudable aim, but you cannot have a perfect one. How is it hypocritical to acknowledge the problem of totally permanent and irrevocable sentences in an imperfect justice system? Furthermore, I'm fairly certain that the anti-death penalty supporters have a genuine moral issues with the death penalty (flippantly dismissed as "queasy" feelings).
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First thing we can do is unclog our system of all the stupid drug cases.
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Kickaha, when you say the state shouldn't waste resources on people that cannot be rehabilitated, does this apply to murderers and rapist only or does it also apply people that continually end of in jail for simple drug possession and other non-violent crimes?
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To bring this thread back on topic a bit if this discussion is anything like the one happening around the water cooler or in the political arena then the affect video game violence has on real world violence will be drowned out by this sort of arguement.
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So no, I'm not going to get drawn into a 'where do you draw the line?' straw man argument, I've explicitly stated where that line is for me, personally. Please refer to that list of criteria before jumping to conclusions. I firmly believe that most people are rehabilitatable. I furthermore believe that drug use crimes are inane to prosecute - get these people help, instead of incarceration. I know it's confusing to see someone as a proponent of both rehabilitation and education in the prison system, *and* as a voice for the death penalty in limited cases, but I'm just a complex sort of guy that thinks for himself. |
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to me the idea of incarcarating someone for something as stupid as drug posession is amazingly stupid.
if the only person you're harming is yourself, i couldn't care less. for crimes where you harm others there are laws in place. give me my libertarian society! |
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Not trying to get into an argument with you, just looking for clarification. And I agree with you on most points. I think the vast majority of violent offenders are just as likely to rehabilitate as non-violent offenders. In the case of drug addiction and offenses stemming from the addiction, probably far more likely. Personally, I have no faith in the jury system and if I were on trial for a crime I didn't commit and I would be scared shitless and assume I'd be convicted.
As for the murders in Florida, I think it would be the perfect case to use restorative justice instead of trying to lock them all up/execute them. Of course restorative justice won't work if the victims/victims families are dead set on vengeance. Just to clarify, a straw-man is a mindless argument meant only to distract from the actual argument? A saw it bandied about at AI but was never exactly sure of the definition. |
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I had visions of Shawn obsessing over a Trumptman post when I read that.
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Oops. That was Trumptman jerking off to giant not Shawn jerking off to Trumptman. Though that could've applied to any number of AOers. Maybe they should've changed the name of the forum to The Circle Jerk with the subtitle, 'Who's going to have to eat the cracker?'.
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