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View Poll Results: Should capital punishment be brought back? | ||||||
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14-12-2017, 08:18 PM | #26 | |||
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Not every convicted murderer is guilty
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14-12-2017, 08:20 PM | #27 | ||
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That's an argument for looking at the prison system, not for killing someone.
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14-12-2017, 08:20 PM | #28 | |||
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14-12-2017, 08:21 PM | #29 | ||
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And what's moral about killing anyone, no matter who that person might be? |
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14-12-2017, 08:22 PM | #30 | ||
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14-12-2017, 08:22 PM | #31 | |||
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14-12-2017, 08:25 PM | #32 | |||
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And yes I would have no problem killing someone who was a terrorist about to carry out an attack on my home country or someone breaking into my house threatening my family. Yes it probably better to try and debilitate them but when faced in that situation I'm sure you wouldn't cry if you killed them in self-defence. |
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14-12-2017, 08:27 PM | #33 | ||
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What statement does this punishment make? Killing is wrong... except when a jury of strangers decide it isn't? |
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14-12-2017, 08:29 PM | #34 | |||
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I prefer to look at the issue another way.
Do you consider human life to be precious. Do you want to do everything possible in terms of health care etc, to both improve life expectancy and quality of life or .... do you not put a value on life like the murderous bastards that commit these crimes The 2 do not reconcile, you do not fight bad with more bad We can't as a nation promote excellent health care and respect for life on the one hand, and then kill those we do not deem worthy of life on the other. |
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14-12-2017, 08:36 PM | #35 | |||
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14-12-2017, 08:38 PM | #36 | ||
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We're discussing capital punishment, not your instinct to defend yourself when you're attacked. Two completely different things. You suggest killing them, because they are murderers and don't know killing is wrong? You've lost me now. Last edited by Marsh.; 14-12-2017 at 08:38 PM. |
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14-12-2017, 08:39 PM | #37 | |||
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14-12-2017, 08:41 PM | #38 | ||
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Defending yourself resulting in the manslaughter of that person is something entirely different to what we were discussing. The intent in that case is to defend/protect yourself and others, not to murder someone. Someone being incarcerated for a crime and a judge and jury who have no connection to this person or anyone they've hurt deciding they must die is what we were actually talking about. What's moral about that? |
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14-12-2017, 08:42 PM | #39 | |||
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14-12-2017, 08:47 PM | #41 | |||
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No, it does absolutely nothing to reduce crime and as APWD pointed out where do we draw the line, what's punishable and what isn't?
I'm studying crime in sociology at the moment so this topic has been popping up frequently in lesson. I do understand some of the pros to having it, such as it's cheaper (although this isn't always the case surprisingly due to how expensive lethal injections are to carry out etc.), it solves the crowding issue of prisons and so on and so forth. But there's just far too many cons that massively outweigh the pros. |
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14-12-2017, 08:53 PM | #45 | ||
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Both protecting society from their crimes does not make them the "same". It's like saying whether my mum is dead or alive in the next room makes no difference, she's still in the next room. |
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14-12-2017, 08:53 PM | #46 | |||
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Know some people who know the ****s that did it too......
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14-12-2017, 08:57 PM | #47 | |||
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14-12-2017, 08:59 PM | #48 | |||
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There's been a recent re-opening of the Megan and Jossie Russel murders. Michael Stone, the convicted killer has been behind bars in a high security prison for 21 years but recently another prisoner, Levi Bellfield started telling other prisoners he did it. Its highly likely that Bellfield didn't do it but why would he admit to such a thing. Insanity perhaps? Then again, maybe Michael Stone, one of the most hated men in Britain, will turn out to be an innocent man.
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14-12-2017, 08:59 PM | #49 | |||
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14-12-2017, 09:00 PM | #50 | ||
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We must be better than those we judge in a court of law, I don't see murdering those we find guilty very just.
Murdering someone that's murdered someone else is stupid, backwards and below us. Why should we lower ourselves to support or commit the same acts we condemn people for in the first place? |
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