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19005, RE: its simple
Posted by guest, Tue Jan-23-01 11:35 PM
>a killing that is not in
>self defence is murder
>wether its me or the government
>doin it

I agree. This is one of those issues that I've never been able to see the other side of, no argument for the death penalty has ever made much sense to me. I can't get past the paradox of a government which claims that killing is a crime, and then turns around and kills. For me, it is that simple.

No, neither I nor any of my family/friends have never been the victim of a crime legally punishable by death. And maybe if that happened (God forbid), I'd want the creep who did it to die. But frankly I doubt it.

Where do we get off thinking we can decide who deserves to die and who doesn't? That's a fucked up choice to make.

Enough.

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